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‘The Magic of Spring’ by Brita Seifert<\/p>\n
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Quite well done I say however its a copy of my image of Rachelle Summers :-<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Rachelle Summers<\/p><\/div>\n
Such a copy is a flagrant breach of Copyright, artist are allowed to copy from photographs for reference purposes but not to copy an entire image. Once I saw this image I emailed Brita and asked her to remind me of the note I had given her for permission to use this image, I received no answer but 5 days later all signs of the painting were gone from her website, Facebook, DA etc etc…..still no answer by email. The daft thing is had she asked to use I would have said yes, I have yet to say no to anyone .<\/p>\n
Anyhow during the 5 days of waiting I got to thinking; she has a lot of nudes and models on her site and I wondered how many of them were used from photographs without the photographers permission or awareness. So I started to Google her painting and lo and behold it was amazing how many ‘paintings’ were very close to original photographs. Although in saying that, some weren’t…as you can see she lifted the model and put her in a new setting.<\/p>\n
‘The Ritual’ by Brita Seifert<\/p>\n And this this image by French Photographer and Model Elfyah Sne Amok:-<\/p>\n ‘Silent Sighing Song’ by Elfyah Sne Amok<\/p>\n Ah but there’s more…much more:-<\/p>\n and this one by the excellent photographer Erkin Sahin:-<\/p>\n ‘Painted Cellist’ by Erkin \u00a0Sahin<\/p>\n and….<\/p>\n From American photographer :-<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>‘Cellist’ by Brita Seifert…selling for 1150 euros<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>‘Misery’ by Brita Seifert<\/p>\n