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cdvonstinkpot on March 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Lawyer/Photographer Just Deleted All Her Pintere...

Potential solution: Take a photo of a photo and post that, then you own the posted image.

It's a principle that works with photographing celebrities- in that they don't own the copyright on your photo of them.

gburt on March 3, 2012 [–]

This is not a solution. For a short discussion on this idea: http://photo.net/large-format-photography-forum/005ltZ

cdvonstinkpot on March 4, 2012 | [–]

Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn't aware of that.

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