[zencycler]

Here is how to thoroughly refute the AP’s case against GZ:

The picture that the AP took was done at a public appearance, with many other people both watching and taking pictures or videos.

For example, Ms. Corey’s exact same expression can be found at about the 1:19 mark on this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UskHmQ5DHw

So even putting aside any other defenses (fair use, etc).. The AP’s copyright cannot extend to any use of that particular pose, since at this event it was simultaneously being captured and used by many other media sources on film and video.

Therefore, the ONLY thing that can be protected by the use of that copyright is the duplication and use of that EXACT picture

[zencycler]

Or to put it another way, I’m sure that some AP photographer somewhere has taken a picture of Mount Rushmore. So if I stand in the same spot where the photographer was when he snapped that photo, and I paint what I see, am I violating his copyright?

[Uncle Chip]

<>Here is how to thoroughly refute the AP’s case against GZ<>

Thanks for pointing that out — at 1:19 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UskHmQ5DHw

George needs to call AP’s bluff —

[Bobalu]

Yup.
It’s as if I could take a picture of the Empire State Building and thereafter no one could produce a painting of that building from the same angle....it’s ridiculous.