carfac - 4:56 pm on Dec 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

OK, I know copntent is copyrightable. But what about images?

Treading lightly on ToS, this is an analogy, NOT reflective of my site.

Let's suppose my site catalogues magazines, and as part of that, I show an image of the magazine cover. I do not OWN that cover, so I cannot copyright my image of that cover. But do I have any rights to my version of the image of that cover based on doing the scanning, image manipulation and what not? If I can prove (via watermarking) the image was taken directly from my site? Do have any rights to my version of that otherwise copyrighted image? (I am thinking no, but can't hurt to ask!)

Thanks!

dave