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backWho Owns the Copyright (Or is there one)? The University of Alabama has sued a local artist for making a nice business from painting pictures of the university football team from photographs and selling them as paintings, photos thereof, and as logos on coffee mugs and other things. The university claims he violated the university's trademark rights, particularly its “famous crimson and white color scheme.” (link to article here)
The Times article (front page, yet!) makes clear how cloudy the law is here. Some courts have “tried to balance the rights of the owners of intellectual property against that of free expression. The cases, which involve a variety of legal theories, generally turn on whether consumers are apt to be confused about who produced the works in question and on whether artists managed to add something meaningful to the bare facts.” Read the rest. Here we go again. [Posted at 11/12/2006 01:16 PM by John Bennett on IP in the News CommentsSubmit Comment |
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