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Bridgeman v. Corel: faithful photographs of old paintings

Decision date · 18 February 1999

Context photograph: Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, New York.
Context photograph: Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, New York. Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

An art-image library claimed copyright in photographic transparencies of public-domain paintings.

The decision

The federal district court found the faithful reproductions lacked the originality required for the asserted protection.

Source

S.D.N.Y. · 36 F. Supp. 2d 191

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