Re: autographs

On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Peter Groves <peter.groves[_at_]virgin.net> wrote:
>
> On 15 Jan 2000, Sylvie Fodor <s.fodor[_at_]akg.de> wrote:
> >
> > I would be interested to know how, according to your opinion,
> > Autographs -- meaning the photo of the signature of a person,
> > dead or alive, famous or not - are to be treated?
> >
> > Can they be protected by copyright? Do they have to be registered
> > as trademark?
> >
> > Any kind of answer out of any country is welcome.
>
> There cold be some copyright protection in the UK if it could be argued
> that the signature was an original artisitic work, but that would surely
> be a difficult argument to run. My advice to a client in this situation
> would be to try to register a trademark.

Thank you for your reply. However, I do think there is a misunderstanding -- I did mean the "photo of an authograph" -- not the authograph itself.

Sylvie Fodor
<s.fodor[_at_]akg.de> Received on Wed Jan 19 2000 - 08:48:28 GMT