Comment by victorbjorklund

9 days ago

I would 100% be allowed to draw an image of Indiana Jones in illustrator. There is no law against me drawing his likeness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_ficti...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#United_Stat...

  • I don't think those links support the point you are trying to make (i assume you are disagreeing with parent). Copyright law is a lot more complex then just a binary, and fictional characters certainly don't enjoy personality rights.

    • harrison ford certainly does

      edit - also, I wasn't making a binary claim, the person I was responding to was: "no law". There are more than zero laws relevant to this situation. I agree with you that how relevant is context dependent.

You wouldn't be able to offer a service to draw 1 to 1 recreations of Indiana Jones movie frames, though...

No, you aren't allowed to monetize an image of Indiana Jones even if you made it yourself.

  • That depends. There are situations where you are. Satire in particular would be a common one, but there can be others.

    Rules around copyright (esp. Fair use) can be very context dependent.