This is interesting. A geek wanted to make an 8-bit version of a music album, Kind of Blue. They then wanted to complete it with a pixelated low-def version of the original cover art. Any questions of the album rights were negotiated proper with the original artist, but the cover art was not negotiated as it was believed to be fair use. The professional photographer thought otherwise and threatened to sue. The main intent? It wasn’t concern over copyright infringement per se, it was that the original artist was a photography purist and couldn’t stand seeing a pixelated low-def version of his work circulated on the Internet. The case was settled out of court with an expensive one-time payment of a couple tens of thousands of dollars and a promise never to redistribute and reuse the artwork in the future for that purpose.
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