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Canada · Copying & adaptation

Théberge: transferring artwork from paper to canvas

Decision date · 28 March 2002

Context photograph: Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa.
Context photograph: Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa. Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

Galleries lifted the ink from authorized posters and transferred it onto canvas.

The decision

The majority held that the process did not reproduce the image because it did not multiply the copies.

Source

Supreme Court of Canada · 2002 SCC 34

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