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Re: Wow! This guy is good!
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Date: 
Wed, 7 Jun 2000 15:37:53 GMT
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Around 5 years ago there was an artist in NY painting blow-ups of Bank of
England notes. The BoE tried to close him down, but as the images were not
copyrighted - it cound not be done. All new notes are now copyrighted.

Scott A


In lugnet.general, Eric Kingsley writes:
In lugnet.general, Matthew Miller writes:
Scott A <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
Sounds sensible to me. SO could he do one of Mickey mouse, or, say, the Coca
Cola Logo?

That'd be a trademark issue -- different from copyright.

Ahh but what about Andy Worhol -sp?  Did he get in trouble for say his Coke
painting or his Campbells soup painting?


Eric Kingsley

The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/



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(...) I'm not sure this makes sense -- copyright isn't something that has to be done; it's something you automatically have over any of your creative works. You can register your copyrighted materials, which gives it more force, but I don't think (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)

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(...) Ahh but what about Andy Worhol -sp? Did he get in trouble for say his Coke painting or his Campbells soup painting? Eric Kingsley The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)

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