Re: droit de suite

On 04/12/2000, Robert Panzer <bigbusie[_at_]aol.com> wrote:
>
> Can you tell us what this case is? Is it the second decision after
> CCNV v. Reid? I recall that in this case, after the court established
> that Reid's sculpture was an independent work and not a work made for
> hire, that Reid (the creator and copyright owner of the work) tried
> to get access to the sculpture to copy it, but was denied by CCNV.
> The court then ruled that CCNV could not deny access.

Could you expand on what "copy" meant in this case, if something other than photographing it? Other copying methods, such as making a plaster mold so that the work could be cast in bronze, sound like unusual (and messy) things to do on somebody else's premises. What was the sculpture made of?

pat sloane
<patsloane[_at_]aol.com> Received on Wed Apr 12 2000 - 13:28:19 GMT