Rstripnieks
Member
Today I was wondering about copyright and it really got me thinking about my and other engravers designs. Me like many engravers starting this decade learned most from same books and mostly same people (all we could find in internet) like Sam Alfano ,Steve Lindsay and many other master engravers and we all saw the same pictures ,videos and tutorials and recently I realised that like it or not I have all those designs sitting in my consciousness
And from time to time when I think about design and filling empty spaces those designs and solutions are sitting in my head and then I have to think :"did I just came up with that or did someone else did ..." That is getting me worried all the time because im already influenced by those people and I cannot avoid that so I end up constantly checking pictures if I havent repeated someone elses work and thats frustrating .
Now its the reason why I try to avoid looking at other engravings because I have amazing picture memory.
Also does that mean if some simple border or scroll layout everybody could think of was engraved on watch case for example could never be repeated from other engraver?
Does shading solutions have copyright?
How possible is that engraver who has engraved his entire life infinite number of items unknowingly almost repeats some other engravers work ?
Dont get me wrong I have never intended to copy or repeat someone's work ,I just started to wonder about it and what are opinions of other artists?
And from time to time when I think about design and filling empty spaces those designs and solutions are sitting in my head and then I have to think :"did I just came up with that or did someone else did ..." That is getting me worried all the time because im already influenced by those people and I cannot avoid that so I end up constantly checking pictures if I havent repeated someone elses work and thats frustrating .
Now its the reason why I try to avoid looking at other engravings because I have amazing picture memory.
Also does that mean if some simple border or scroll layout everybody could think of was engraved on watch case for example could never be repeated from other engraver?
Does shading solutions have copyright?
How possible is that engraver who has engraved his entire life infinite number of items unknowingly almost repeats some other engravers work ?
Dont get me wrong I have never intended to copy or repeat someone's work ,I just started to wonder about it and what are opinions of other artists?