![]() Though, honestly, the two videos are extremely different, and unless you’re really spending much time paying attention to the walls in the background, you probably wouldn’t even notice that this is the same wall. ![]() So part of this might just be about “competing” videos both using the same mural (briefly in both cases). There’s a separate factoid in the case, which is that Hayuk apparently created the original mural for a different music video, starring Rye Rye and M.I.A., which you can see below: If you’re putting your artwork in public, it should be non-infringing if someone else happens to capture it in a photograph or video. We’ve seen plenty of other attempts to claim copyright on public artwork and it strikes us as equally ridiculous each time. But Hayuk claims that using it in such a video without a license is infringement. It’s just part of the background (and doesn’t even show up until pretty far in). The colorful mural really isn’t in the video that long and is hardly a central part of the video. Artist Maya Hayuk is suing RCA and Sony Music because a mural she painted - and which appears to be in a public area - appears (rather briefly) in the background of a music video by Elle Varner. Tue, Feb 28th 2012 10:27am - Mike Masnick
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