I would like to know the address of the company, since we might have use for
such copies.
Thanks,
Peter, the Rebernik
PS: After 70 years after the death of the painter, the picture is free to
copy. All others have to be asked. And: good quality copiers are rare.
....

At 10:53 30.04.98 -0400, you wrote:
>This is being cross posted, please excuse any duplications.
>
>I received an interesting "business proposal" today via
>e-mail (I also check the web site to see if it was as bad as
>it sounded). Parts of it strike me as being possibly
>illegal, or at least on very shaky ground. I was wondering
>what you all thought of it.
>
>The company, located in Germany, paints pictures, in oil,
>and sells them to individuals and businesses. Fine. They
>will take commissions. Fine.
>However, they will paint ANY picture. They specialize in
>reproductions. They claim that a "perfect reproduction is
>guaranteed," and can do Old Masters as well as contemporary
>modern art. This is the part that strikes me as not so fine.
>For the Old Masters I am not too worried if they are using
>modern paints and canvases since there is no longer any
>copyright on such paintings and even if they are as good as
>they claim, a simple check of materials would stop any
>passing off as originals. However, don't modern paintings
>still have a copyright? "A perfect reproduction" would be as
>much of a copy as a xerox is of a journal article. Much more
>work goes into the painting, but it is not intended to be a
>creative exercise or another artist's interpretation of a
>painting. This strikes me as being a possible source of
>modern forgeries as well.
>
>
>                                                Angela
>Putney, Ph.D.
>                                                Physics
>Management Fellow
>                                                American
>Institute of Physics
>                                                [log in to unmask]
>
>

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