Originally posted by Davo7SVT:
Nirish, your lawyer will be quick to tell you that if your picture wasn't copyrighted then you have no rights to it. Andy's can claim they found it in the public domain (which he did), therefore he can use it for anything he wants.



It is not public domain until it is placed in the public domain. Anything you produce you own the copyright to it and can decide how others can use it. However, since he didn't register the picture with the gubment, he can't claim statutory damages, only actual.

http://www.patents.com/weblaw.sht
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Just because it's on the web doesn't mean it is free to take and do with as you please.

My car.