Is this a photo copyright violation?

If you find a picture you like. Copy the idea, and take a similar picture. Not taking the first person's picture, just their idea. Someone threatened to sue me over this. I copied their idea.

Please let me know where you got your info.

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It's not a copyright violation. You didn't make a copy of the picture. You copied an idea, but ideas can't be copyrighted, only actual "works."

See www.copyright.gov for the ins and outs of copyright law.

There is no copyright violation if what you copied was only for personal use.
No, ideas cannot be copyrighted, but using someone else's work without credit to them is called plagiarism and could get you fired or black-listed in your industry.

U.S. Copyright law 17 USC 102(b): "In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work."

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