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United States · Moral rights

Cheffins: a ship built over a school bus

Decision date · 8 June 2016

Context photograph: The Ninth Circuit’s Browning Courthouse, San Francisco.
Context photograph: The Ninth Circuit’s Browning Courthouse, San Francisco. Blackhorsemedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Resized

The dispute

Artists turned a bus into a mobile replica of a Spanish galleon and sued after it was destroyed.

The decision

The court held that La Contessa was an applied-art object excluded from the federal moral-rights statute.

Source

Ninth Circuit · 825 F.3d 588

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