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Scott A <s.arthur@hw.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.
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 that should matter much in this case, as it's probably pretty
clear that the Bank of England did in fact make the design first.
Anyway, it's likely that fair use would protect some representation of the
notes in art, but it wouldn't necessarily extend to a simple exact
enlargement.
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| (...) I do not know about England, but in the United States there is no copyright on anything produced by the U.S. Government. The idea is that works created with public money belongs to the public. Of course there are laws other than copyright that (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I do not know about England, but in the United States there is no copyright on anything produced by the U.S. Government. The idea is that works created with public money belongs to the public. Of course there are laws other than copyright that (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.publish)
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