Re: Re: Attribution is not required in public domainmaterials

At 10:39 AM 6/5/2003, S. Martin Keleti wrote:
>But taking credit for a symphony, painting, novel or play WOULD be a false
>designation of origin. Under the Lanham Act it's not necessary, for
>example, the credit the songwriters to a musical work, but if one does
>undertake the attribution, if must be completely accurate.

That's not how I read Dastar. Dastar had indicated that it was the producer of the videos it distributed. As Tyler pointed out, there might be false advertising claims from someone's imputing another's work to him/herself, but not a Lanham Act claim. The word "origin" under the Lanham Act is only intended to mean the person who manufactured or sold the item in question.

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