RE: Artists, Museums & Copyright??

From: Robert A. Baron <rabaron[_at_]pipeline.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:06:49 -0400

That gets to the heart of one of the problems facing the visual arts and copyright. Copyright law was fashioned for things that can be published and unique works of visual art just don't fit into the requirement well. How do you publish an original work of art without publishing a reproduction?

At 07:30 AM 9/26/2002 -0400, Vance R. Koven wrote:
>At 08:05 AM 9/25/02 -0400, Chris Mohr wrote:
>>There is another question--namely, whether the appearance of a
>>reproduction of the painting in the museum catalog before 1978 rendered
>>the work PD.
>
>Hmmm. I don't see how publication of a reproduction would act as
>publication of the original, or am I missing something?
>
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Robert A. Baron
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