9 Responses to “Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas”

1. Cliff Abrams
   June 15th, 2006 09:21

   Sorry, but i don’t have a comment on Jackson Pollock. It’s just that i can’t figure out how to start a thread on this site. Thanks for your help.

   
   
2. Diane
   June 19th, 2006 09:16

   The IP issues? What IP issues? The “idea” of dripping paint on paper, because it is an idea, cannot be copyrighted. (And it was not Pollack’s idea anyway: probably every child “discovers” and experiments with this at some point in their life. ) Nor is Pollock’s technique being replicated here: he dripped/splashed his paint on canvas, and we are clicking and dragging a mouse to generate various colors rendered by Flash animation. There is a very popular children’s paint software program (Kidpix) that replicates exactly what this site does and no one sees it as a problem because no one associates the idea or process with Jackson Pollock. In the Kidpix software program, it is one tool in a digital painting palette for kids.

   But there may be one IP issue with this particular Web site. The domain name does suggest an association with the painter. If you google the URL, you get the following: “Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas, 2003, original flash animation by : stamen.com.” So this apparently isn’t a site created by the Pollock estate (unless Miltos Manetas is a representative of the estate) – is it cybersquatting? I would have thought the Pollock estate would have registered all domain names + variations. (Gee, even Brad and Angelina were smart enough to do this for baby Shiloh!)

   
   
3. Amalyah Keshet
   June 20th, 2006 02:07

   That’s exactly what I had in mind – the domain name issue, publicity rights, rights of personality, moral rights — the imagination runs wild. Of course the drip technique is not protected by copyright (although I wouldn’t be surprised if someone were to try and prove that it is protected as “trade dress” or “look and feel”) but “Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas” is a bit of an eyebrow-raiser. Oxymoron, anyone?

   
   
4. kevin
   July 20th, 2006 03:36

   I’m hooked……well done Miltos, thanks for your hard work and creativity.

   
   
5. Lars
   August 12th, 2006 05:16

   I love this “Pollock style” program of creativity but not understanding computers–how does I save their art work or place it on their computer as wallpaper, etc? I’ve tried but no success.
   Thanks.

   
   
6. Valerie Richards
   October 19th, 2006 12:21

   Tried it & it is mindlessly relaxing. A little too uncontrolable as it took me forever for a red color to ‘resurface’ when I wanted it, but that made it more of a challange to get the ‘look’ I wanted to end up with. It ‘sorta’ is a substitute for venting any latent graffiti desires one might have without having to buy the paint & venture out & try to remain undetected. Could popssibly become a theraputic activity for some frustrated souls. I never allow myself to become frustrated, life is too short to let anything bother me too much, but it is fun to “PAIBBLE” (PAINT-SCRIBBLE) to relax. Cheers

   
   
7. cath
   November 15th, 2006 07:10

   One of the people who left a comment on the jackson pollock site wrote that pollock copied the dripping method from his friend’s mother. Does anyone know what her name is ?

   
   
8. Charlie
   November 25th, 2006 08:42

   He didn’t copy it from ‘his friends mother’, and didnt even start using this technique until later in his career. The sites funny though.

   
   
9. Jacob Osborn
   November 29th, 2007 05:07

   hey, just wanted to let you know that I am writing a paper on the IP issues surrounding the site for an upper level IP management class in my second year of law school…will let you know where you can read it when it is finished

   
   

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