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Miro, Miro off the wall
21 April 2006
Posted by Sean McManus
Google celebrated the anniversary of Joan Miro's birth in 1893 yesterday by designing its logo in the Spanish painter's style. But Miro's family has objected through the Artists Rights Society, saying that Google incorporated elements of three copyright-protected paintings without permission. The Artists Rights Society previously protested when Google used Dali imagery in its logo. Google's history is fraught with copyright battles, most recently with book publishers annoyed at Google's plans to scan books. Google it seems still has a lot to learn about copyright and how rights owners expect to be treated. Which is odd, since it's pretty heavy-handed about how Google's own logos may be used.
# posted by Sean McManus at 2:16 PM 
Comments:
Did you know, that when Ernest Hemingway was in his early twenties and living with his first wife in the Contrascarpe area of Paris, he had no money to buy his family dry firewood or fresh vegetables and cheese, and yet he had several Miro masterpieces decorating the walls of their one-roomed apartment, bought for pennies from the artist because he liked the style when the general public didn't. Gertrude Stein did the same. So there you go. Quite interesting, maybe.
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