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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 33803, member: 33&quot;]Yes, in the 19th century photographers often copied the work of other photographers.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a famous lawsuit related to this practice, although in this case was related to a publishing company. In the 1880s, the famous photographer Napoleon Sarony sued a printing company for copying a Sarony portrait of Oscar Wilde.</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrow-Giles_Lithographic_Co._v._Sarony" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrow-Giles_Lithographic_Co._v._Sarony" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrow-Giles_Lithographic_Co._v._Sarony</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, who sided with Sarony, who said this was a copyrighted image ... but they did not agree that no photos could be copied. They ruled that the value that Sarony had put into the photo due to the posing, lighting, etc., made it copyrightable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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