Post #278011 by Blowfish on Wed, Jan 10, 2007 1:43 PM

Thanks Mo-Eye, I really doubt anyone has the legal right to have copyrighted all of Hula photography... that would be ridiculous. If that were possible we would only have one style phone, car, etc... I can only guess the guy he sued had an image nearly identical to the ones he is known for...?

Like you said I will have my own style and sell on ebay ond off of my own website.

I found the original complaint you mentioned: http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5628631

and the judgement: http://starbulletin.com/2006/12/27/news/story09.html

To sum it up for people not interested in reading, Kim lost the suit. While I do agree the stained glass image looks a lot like the photo of Kim's it is still different and no one person should try to copyright a curtural form of expression.

Anyway, my project will NOT be a rip off of anyone else's work... original, artistic, and good for Hawaii since I plan on donating some of the profits to the Kamehameha schools.

Mahalo!

[ Edited by: Blowfish 2007-01-10 14:10 ]