On Aug 20, 9:46 pm, Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> wrote: > We see that literal copying remains infringement, but copyright > cannot protect the idea of photographing a bottle of Skyy Vodka. > Even though the subject is extremely narrow, this does not prevent > the photographer from getting copyright on his specific work.
Apropos of nothing, are you familiar with the 'sweat of the brow' doctrine, that says you cannot rebroadcast the facts of a baseball game in progress, until a reasonable time passes? I think if memory serves from a law book I saw (I'm not a lawyer btw) it was from the 1940s. Used to justify time shifting of video broadcasts as well (1980s). Of course you cannot copyright a functional thing like a bottle, but the artistic expression of it...that's different. RL _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
