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NYC owns the Statue of Liberty - maybe they should sue the sculptor for copyright claims... a virtuous circle.
by anonu 8y ago
NYC owns the Statue of Liberty - maybe they should sue the sculptor for copyright claims... a virtuous circle.
- balls187 8y agoIt's governed by the US National Park Service, and it's a derivative work.
- omeid2 8y agoIs there any clear line on what is considered a derivative and what is a copy without substantial deviation?
- balls187 8y agoAs far as I know, no. It's usually up to a Judge to determine. Per this specific case, the USPS tried to argue something along those lines, but the plaintiff successfully claimed that because the statues face was feminized, it was not a copy, but a derivative.
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- omeid2 8y agoThat is ingenious. Considering that Mithras is a man, so a feminine version is easy to argue as substantially different.
- xeromal 8y agoIn the article, the sculptor claims that he made the statue more feminine.
- wesnerm2 8y agoGovernment works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under US law and are in the public domain.
- slavik81 8y agoThe designer of the Statue of Liberty, Frédéric Bartholdi, died in 1904. The copyright has long since expired. It's public domain.
- sschueller 8y agoWalt Disney also died a long time ago. Yet the mouse is still under copyright. [1] [1] https://mag.orangenius.com/how-mickey-mouse-keeps-changing-copyright-law/ https://mag.orangenius.com/how-mickey-mouse-keeps-changing-c...
- slavik81 8y agoFrédéric Bartholdi (1834-1904) and Walt Disney (1901-1966) both died a long time ago, but copyright has expired on all works from 1922 and earlier.