If you like analogies, it’s like some pro photographer found a place, angle and hundreds of other parameters to shoot in the nature, copyrighted the image, and then someone geoguess’d that exact place next day and took a pic with their iphone or google maps street view.
After all, copyright works for whole thing, not spare parts (technique, style or "idea" aren't copyrightable)...
No, this is wrong. Here's a counterexample [0].
[0] Structure, sequence and organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure,_sequence_and_organi...
I'd agree with that. A movie adaptation (with changes) should be allowed under copyright because it's clearly transformative and creative. Copyright should protect against reproduction without compensation, it shouldn't be used to prevent new artistic works from being created even when they are based on existing works. That's how I feel about it anyway, although sadly the law we have today in the US would disagree.
It's not the same person. The face is very different, as is the hair. not the same folds either, look at the white cloth near the flower. It's also a painting and not a photograph. If a painter creates a painting of Grand Central Station has he violated the copyright of the architect? Artists must be able to create, by their own hand, their own versions of things depicted in other works of art or even of other artistic works themselves. (see for example https://publicdelivery.org/fernando-botero-mona-lisa/)
THE TOWER ILLUMINATED Controlled use
The various illuminations of the Eiffel Tower (golden illumination, twinkling, beacon and events lighting) are protected. The use of the image of the Eiffel Tower at night is therefore subject to prior authorisation by the SETE. This use is subject to payment of rights, the amount of which is determined by the intended use, the media plan, etc.
https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/business/use-image-of-eiffel...
Overbroad copyright protections are often granted, but it's never a good thing for anyone except the shortsighted artists who stand to directly benefit from censoring their peers and preventing the rest of us from having a richer culture.
Just because you are using your hand, doesn't mean that you magically are no longer copying
All art is copying. A painter selected a set of colors, choosing some over others, and then used their own skill and a brush to put those colors to canvas in order to create something based on how they saw an object in the world around them. Their subject was filtered by the eyes and perspective of the artist. The artist chose what to keep identical, what to emphasize, what to remove, or when to add something that the subject they were painting never had. The result is something unique that represents the artist's viewpoint.
The photo was clearly the artist's subject, and so it is very similar, but what resulted was not a reproduction of the original. Personally, I like the original photo much better, but I might like another artist's take on it even more than the original photo. That's why we should be careful when granting copyright protections. When artists can freely create new works by reinterpreting the subjects, ideas, and output of other artists we get a more rich and thriving culture filled with different artistic works to choose from according to our own preferences. It's important to police reproductions so that artists can continue to be rewarded for their works, but over-apply copyright and you not only censor artists, you can prevent yourself from having or experiencing something that would have deeply touched you, or even changed you.
You're wrong. I'd agree that minor photoshop edits would be a different story, but this is a painting. Oil on wood.
We want artists to be protected from outright reproductions of their work, so that'd include minor low effort changes in photoshop made just to get around copyright. Artists should be free to create their own versions of existing works though. Copyright is supposed to encourage the creation of art after all.
That's how stories were shared before copyright. Someone would tell a story, and someone else would hear it and later share it with others and each time it was told by someone new changes would be made. Each storyteller would tell their own version, including the best parts from other versions and trying new changes on each audience and gradually the story would evolve as the most popular changes would be included more often and propagate farther.