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Originally Posted by dave
80% of an image has to be altered or it has to cover less than 20% of the canvas if its un-altered!
*EDIT* so in theory, all the visable surfaces of a t-shirt are the canvas so a 6x8 print on the front will cover less than 20% so theres nothing the copywright holders can do!
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This is not strictly true. The 20% rule in copyright only applies when the inclusion is incidental. That is to say If you take a photograph on the street and there is lets say an exhibition poster in the shot then provided it occupies less than 20% of the frame then that's ok. This does not hold if you deliberately use a piece of copyright material as source material for a new work. Under that circumstance the law is very clear, no matter how small a part of the new work the copyright work occupies you must have obtained a rights issue release statement from the copyright holder.