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- From: chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain)
- Newsgroups: alt.sewing
- Subject: Re: Stitchery Legal Question
- Message-ID: <27651@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:21:34 GMT
- References: <3198.1370.uupcb@spacebbs.com>
- Reply-To: chamberl@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Anne Chamberlain)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- Isn't there a statute of limitations on art work as there is for music,
- when it then passes into the public domain? I'm sure all the people
- selling comical postals of the Mona Lisa don't pay royalities to the
- owners of the painting.
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- I have also been told that altering a piece of art work by 10 % means
- that you have not "copied" it for legal purposes. My son made a beautiful
- poster for a fund raiser for the high school band's trip to the launching
- of the U.S.S. Annapolis submarine. Shortly after that a local company
- came out with a commemorative mug for the launching with essentially
- the same picture, but they had added some birds in the sky. So we were
- told we had no recourse for claiming they had stolen his design because
- they had altered it by 10%! We need a lawyer to enter this discussion.
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- Anne
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