Painting for Dummies

[marmar]

George W. Bush Used Top Google Results For All His Paintings; Will He Be Sued For Copyright Infringement?


You may have heard the recent stories about former President George W. Bush's new exhibit of paintings of world leaders. There's been plenty of chatter about the former President picking up painting as a hobby since leaving office. While many may have assumed that he used his experience in meeting with those world leaders in order to have an accurate representation of what they looked like, the truth is that he just pulled results from Google Image search result for each one. Literally. Some people have gone through and done Google Image searches on each of the subjects he painted, and discovered that the paintings were clearly all based on either the very first result, or very near the top search result.



Yes, that's right. George W. Bush is an appropriation artist.

Many of those images are from Wikipedia, where they're under Creative Commons licensing, but others are clearly covered by copyright. As Animal New York notes, the image of former French President Jacques Chirac comes from a photo of the cover of Chirac's book cover, where the copyright on the photo is actually held by the Associated Press. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140409/11243126858/george-w-bush-used-top-google-results-all-his-paintings-will-he-be-sued-copyright-infringement.shtml

[tanyev]

1. First they'll have to prove those god-awful paintings are reproductions of the images in question.

[WhiteTara]

2. He is just a thief in every area of his life

I knew he was not authentic and this is one of those glaring instances. Not to mention stealing 2 elections that we know of.