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Copyright 19-May-2005 At 6:10:57 PM Ronny

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I think it all depends really...(standard lawyer answer)
...both for how you would feel and the legal issue.

eg - if you get a generaic photo of the sydney harbour bridge and trace the outline and put that on a t-shirt - the photographer prob wouldn't feel bad at all, and it wouldn't be infringing copyright, as really what you're reproducing is an outline of a coathanger with no reference to the particular photo

but if you took a very specific 'outline style' climbing photo taken by someone on a particular route, and used the specific outline the photographer would probably justifyable be a bit pissed off, and it would in all likelihood breach copyright. (they may have been having you on neil - but then its in their interest to do so)
James