http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/7th/081296p.pdf
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).
Newyorkbrad
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkbrad@gmail.com wrote:
I've placed this onto Wikisource.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Daniel_Schrock_v._Learning_Curve_International...
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".
-- John Vandenberg
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