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Vintage Nursery Rhymes

March 18th, 2010 admin No comments

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Art Project--Legal?

have an old/vintage, out of print Children's poetry/nursery rhyme book that I would like to use in an art project for my nursery theme.

This would include photocopying the pages of the book and using the pictures/poems in a quilt block, on the walls, (matted and colored in) , and in a mobil.

Would this be legal? I don't want to destroy the book, because it took me three years to find another copy of it, and I do dearly love it, since it was used in my childhood as well as my Dad's.

Any advice would help! Thanks!
It's "Just Before Bedtime" a 1964 'Ideals Magazine' special publication. Ideals Magazine went out of business in 1992.

To make it legal you could use tracing paper, and trace the image. Since it's by your own hand that way, you bypass many copyright laws. Additional alteration by matting and coloring in further distances you from your source material, but if you ever have the piece you make in an exhibition, or publication, it wouldn't hurt to give credit to the original as a source of inspiration for your work.