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> A sculptor who created a replica of the Statue of Liberty for a Las Vegas casino was awarded $3.5 million in damages last week after the US Postal Service (US
by balls187 8y ago
> A sculptor who created a replica of the Statue of Liberty for a Las Vegas casino was awarded $3.5 million in damages last week after the US Postal Service (USPS) accidentally used a photo of his statue
Wouldn't that imply that the copyright owner is actually the Casino, and not the sculptor?
And if the USPS purchased a license to use a photograph, and Getty sold them the rights to use the photograph, wouldn't Getty bare some responsibility?
EDIT:
From Getty EULA, you are responsible:
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- colordrops 8y agoDoesn't imply that - in fact the opposite. It implies that the sculptor retained rights to imagery of the work.
- balls187 8y agoGood point. I should have said--did the defense actually determine that the sculptor retained their copyright, given the work was commissioned by a casino.
- briandear 8y agoWell if the casino did own the copyright, the Post Office still had to pay up under the same exact law. A casino passing up $3.5 million? You bet they would have sued hard and probably would have won more.
- slavik81 8y agoThat's normal for commissioned works. When you hire a contractor, by default they retain copyright over whatever they create. https://copyright.uslegal.com/copyright-ownership/commissioned-works/ https://copyright.uslegal.com/copyright-ownership/commission...
- true_religion 8y agoWhat about “work for hire”?
- slavik81 8y agoFrom the link: > Work made for hire and commissioned work are different from one another because work made for hire involves an employee and commissioned work is executed by an independent contractor.
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- dmurray 8y ago> And if the USPS purchased a license to use a photograph, and Getty sold them the rights to use the photograph, wouldn't Getty bare some responsibility? The USPS have to bear the responsibility first - the sculptor shouldn't have to dig into all of the USPS' business dealings before filing a lawsuit. However the USPS have a contract with Getty in which either Getty misrepresented what they were selling, or the USPS did not read the contract correctly. In the former case USPS should be able to recover some of the loss from Getty, but it looks more like the latter.
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