Originally Posted by
kbarch
But there is also such thing as fair use (which I'm suggesting this may be), and in that case they generally can't complain unless the would-be fair use is rather unfair and damaging.
I don't believe it satisfies the criteria for
fair use. Fair use requires either an excerpt of the original work (quoting parts to critique it) or it has to be derivative*/transformative (something that looks more than just a copy).
What might be a good example is Warhol's Campbell Soup paintings. They are not simple copies but rather (arguable) transformations of the original image).
Originally Posted by
kbarch
A lot of people are surprised by the laws that deal with salvage. It's not extortion, it's compensation for going to the trouble of recovering something. Salvage is an honest line of work, and if no one did it, valuable things would be lost for good.
It's not salvage either.
(* The legal definition of "derivative", not the lay definition that implies "not original").