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[artdogtx]

I have a few questions here about art work and copyright infringement, I'm gonna keep 'em hypothetical for simplicity....
1) If I painted a picture of Bart Simpson on a canvas and sold it on the net, would that be infringement?

2) What if I bought clip-art from a non-free sight and painted a picture of that and sold it on the net?

3)  what if I painted a picture of a c.d. cover, such as counting crows, and sold it on the net?

4) What if I painted a picture of the cave drawings done in France, based on a picture from a text book or post-card?  Is that infringement?

Any advice that anyone has on this would be greatly appreciated?  I'm more of an art-brain than a legal-brain, and reading up on this stuff just confuses (and concerns) me more!  Thank you so much!  

[JSonnabend]

1) If I painted a picture of Bart Simpson on a canvas and sold it on the net, would that be infringement?

that would infringe

2) What if I bought clip-art from a non-free sight and painted a picture of that and sold it on the net?

that would infringe

3)  what if I painted a picture of a c.d. cover, such as counting crows, and sold it on the net?

that would infringe

4) What if I painted a picture of the cave drawings done in France, based on a picture from a text book or post-card?  Is that infringement?

that would not infringe

These answers assume: (a) the works copied in 1-3 are recent enough that the copyrights have not expired; (b) the picture in the book is a straight depiction of the cave drawings; (c) none of the copyrights have been placed in the public domain; (d) the works you created in 1-3 did not qualify for fair use as satire, etc., which I assume not to be the case from the tenor of your inquiry.

- Jeff

[Mina]

What if you drew a picture of Aragorn and posted it in a magazine that was being sold for profit?

[marjorie overmier]

a student submits a painting to the literary art magazine, that sells for $1.00, the painting was based on a contemporary artists work, but the main figure was flipped with some other details changed- style is an exact copy.  what type of copyright issue might this be?