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Two hypothetical situations:
Artist A copies a colour photo of a film star from a magazine to produce a portrait but changes the colour of the blouse and style of the necklace.
Artist B copies a photo of a lion from a nature book/online photo, but paints him amid surroundings which have been invented from his own imagination - she has never been to Africa to photo her own lions.
Have either infringed 'coptright'? After a recent discussion on this, several people thought there was a 'grey' area, even though they had read the rules of copyright (they also said they were then more confused than ever!!).
Looking at various exhibitions which invariably contain paintings of wild animals, I would think that the majority of artists use 'animal books' for their reference, yet I have never seen anything in the paintings' description to denote this or any credit given to the original photographer.