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Nov 22, 2009, 12:15 AM
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Re: Recent copyright case regarding photographs
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On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)
<newyorkbrad [at] gmail> wrote:
> http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/7th/081296p.pdf
I've placed this onto Wikisource.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Daniel_Schrock_v._Learning_Curve_International,_Inc
I'm cleaning up the style now.
> This is a Seventh Circuit case decided earlier this month dealing with the
> copyright status of photographs under U.S. law, and may be of interest to
> those following developments in this area. In this case, the court finds
> that photographs of three-dimensional objects displayed sufficient
> originality to be independently copyrightable, because they were not
> "slavish copies" of the originals (the standard from the familiar Corel v.
> Bridgeman decision).
In the background the photographs are called "extremely poor copies
because the originals are in color".
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John Vandenberg
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