are ebay images copyrighted

usage for an art book

[w481]

i'm interested in using ebay product images: cars, furniture, objects, etc. for reproduction in a book.
its an "art" thing, you know, image appropriation and the like. this is not going to be a big profit-making venture. i have checked the ebay website, and the only problems they have are for duplicate usage of images for auctions. after an auction is finished, i would think nobody would care if someone utilized the jpeg's i have downloaded, especially for an art project.

[adamnichols45]

i agree w481 is not very fair and how you can call your self a director only god knows.

Bet he came up with that one in the pub hahahaha...

[edited by: adamnichols45 at 5:05 pm (utc) on Jan. 17, 2005]

[PatrickDeese]

Not making money on the project won't exempt you from monetary damages, AFAIK.

[Macro]

>>the POINT of the artistic project, is not to produce the images myself

If art had an exemption there's a lot of stuff that could be claimed as art. I could "artistically" frame the BBC's content and present it in different coloured borders on my site.

What does amount of profit or loss have to do with anything? What if you sell more than you expect and actually end up with a profit? However impossible that may sound, what if you end up with some viral publicity and sales really, really take off?