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Mazer v. Stein: statuettes made into lamp bases

Decision date · 8 March 1954

Context photograph: U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C.
Context photograph: U.S. Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C. Daderot · Public domain · Resized

The dispute

Sculpted statuettes were manufactured and sold as lamp bases.

The decision

The Supreme Court held that the industrial use did not prevent copyright in the sculptural works.

Source

US Supreme Court · 347 U.S. 201

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