Have just mailed her about the issue.
Have also given the link to this thread.
[...] Right now, it is being damaged with all the crap that is coming out [...]
I don't see it this way.
There may be people out there, who do like to drink out of a mug with a Bukowski-shot on. There might be people who prefer laying their heads on a pillow with Bukowski's face on.
Neither these people nor these items do the photographs on them any harm.
In contrary: every item, whatever it is, that has a Montfort-shot, helps spreading the fame of Montfort. Why is it, that he is the most famous Buk-photographer? It's because his pictures of him are wide-spread.
I only see three reasons to sue against these things:
1) People who work against ones business. (Like, if she had posters for sale herself, this other guy would hurt her own business, of course.)
2) People who make Big money out of that. (Like, if someone would sell a screenprint of a Bukshot by Montfort for 800.- / she should participate of course!)
3) Out-of-context-stuff, like if someone used a Bukshot to create a pro-nazi-poster.
Of course, using MM-pics in
professional commercial context, like book-covers or such - that's a way different thing.
Professionals Do have to ask for permission, that's common sense. (Here we're more or less back to point #2)
ps:
back to another thread - the one with the refrigerator-magnets:
I don't see Anything bad in printing out pictures you like and put them on blank magnets - then your friends may say: "hey! These look great! you should make more of them and sell!" - then this guy goes on with it, makes them, sells them for a bargain (what was it? 3 bucks or what?) - he doesn't get rich, no one gets any harm, but some lazy cats who would never have done these magnets themselfs have some nice looking refrigerator-magnets now.
To come to my point:
Copyright-laws are important. And have their rightful place.
But there are occations, where these laws do not really matter.
20 years ago, we've audio-taped LPs from our friends instead of buying them, and when we created the covers for these tapes, we cut pictures out of magazines and used them.
Come on!
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