Donkey Kong Poster Ethical Question

ponner1us said:

no reputable printer is going to copy a copywrighted work like that. if he can do it himself or knows someone personally maybe they do it for him, but taking it somewhere it's probably not going to get done.

I'm no patent attorney, but I wouldn't be so sure about that. My last question and then I'll stop, but there are a lot of interesting opinions on this.

What if it was not a "copy" but a print of a jpeg that is in the "public domain?"




not sure but my best guess is a printer will not do that either. i imagine it is kind of a gray area with a jpeg but i think to protect themselves without permission a printer wouldn't do it.

ponner1us said:

Not sure if it belongs here on the Porch, but really don't know where else to ask this, so here goes(mods,please delete if inappropriate):

Hypothetically, say that out of 20-25 PJ concerts you had attended, there were 2 that just really floored you (Borgata 05 and MSG II 2010), and say you just really wanted both posters but they were hard to find and way overpriced, found one and overpaid a little, can't find the other one and if you could, you couldn't afford it anyway. Hypothetically speaking, if you knew that the elusive poster could be copied, reproduced to look very good, but you made sure it was a little bit different so if you knew what the authentic one looked like you would know the difference, and had no plans on ever selling it, you just wanted to hang it on the wall, and the price was affordable, would it be ethical to have a copy made? I'm just interested in hearing opinions on this.

Flame away!!!

I've often thought about doing this myself, if I needed to. there is no harm in doing it, for the following reasons:

-if you stick to never selling it
-if its "originality" or "authenticity" doesn't matter to you

for example, there is a promotional item that is nearly impossible to find (Canadian band memoribilia from the 90's is IMPOSSIBLE to find), and so I thought about re-creating it myself. I'd know it isn't original, from their fanclub, etc, but why do I care? I enjoy having the physical item, and looking at the liner notes, so why not?

turns out I contacted the bass player on twitter and asked him, and he said "if you do it, send me a copy too, as I don't even have one! just don't advertize it". I guess he wouldn't want it publicized and the record company find out about it.

it honestly hurts no one.

totally fucked up the quote feature.

You got your answer...

Sarava said:

Santos L. Halper said:

Don't.

There we go

there must be a charity sale of old posters coming up. LOL

Santos L. Halper said:

Don't.

Why not? A reason may prevent others from doing it too.

For me the answer is no. An ethics question..? Maybe. For me it's more that I'd always know it was not the real thing and that would bother ME.