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No. Sitting is not an act restricted by copyright in the UK. 16 The acts restricted by copyright [are]: (a)to copy the work; (b)to issue copies of the wo
by SEMW 11y ago
No. Sitting is not an act restricted by copyright in the UK.
16 The acts restricted by copyright [are]:
(a)to copy the work;
(b)to issue copies of the work to the public;
(ba)to rent or lend the work to the public;
(c)to perform, show or play the work in public;
(d)to communicate the work to the public;
(e)to make an adaptation of the work or do any of the above in relation to an adaptation
Source: CDPA1988 s.16(1).
Photoing a designer chair comes under copying: "copying includes ... the making of a copy in two dimensions of a three-dimensional work" (s.17(3))
IANAL.
- tjr 11y agoSo ... can I sit on the chair, in public?
- SEMW 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732039
- tantalor 11y agoWhat if I sit on the chair in a public place? Surely that constitutes a performance of the chair; after all to sit on a chair is to perform its essential function.
- SEMW 11y agoNo. The performance right is for "literary, dramatic or musical work[s]". (Remember: legislation is drafted by lawyers whose entire job is to make a document that is as painfully, excruciatingly unambiguous as English allows. Each of those rights in the short list I posted has long sections clarifying very precisely what it means. Where ambiguities or absurdities remain, there's probably been a lawsuit over them in the past 25 odd years, and a judge will have spent dozens of pages analysing each one. In other words - criticising an act by trying to spot semantic absurdities based on a tiny extract of its summary is probably not a sensible game to play..)