Re: Re: Attribution is not required inpublicdomainmaterials

Yes exactly. (I am not familiar with the term "passing off" in the copyright sense)
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From: "Paul Fakler" <pfakler[_at_]optonline.net> To: "CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property" <CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:48 AM
Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: Attribution is not required inpublicdomainmaterials

> I believe you are missing the point of what Justice Scalia wrote (if I
> understand your point). He is clearly not referring to the passing off
> the "work" of another (in the copyright sense), but passing off the
> goods of another (the particular tangible copy, in the copyright sense),
> as actionable passing off.
>
> Paul
>
> James and Dorothy Brennan wrote:
>
> >Mr Grierson might be (mis)understood to suggest that to pass off the work
of
> >another as one's own work after expiry of the originator's copyright is
not
> >legally actionable
> >But "passing off" is still actionable under the Lanham Act. As Justice
> >Scallia stated in the opinion:
> >"Thus as it comes to us, the gravamen of respondents claim is that, in
> >marketing and selling Campaigns as its own product without acknowledging
its
> >nearly wholesale reliance on the Crusade television series, Dastar has
made
> >'a false designation of origin...' That claim would undoubtedly be
sustained
> >if Dastar had bought some of New Lines Crusade video tapes and merely
> >repackaged them as its own"
> >The key point of the decision relates to the meaning of "origin" under
the
> >Lanham Act when used with respect to what the Court termed a
"communicative
> >product". And the court held: "But as used in the Lanham Act, the phrase
> >'origin of goods' is in our view incapable of connoting the person or
entity
> >that originated the ideas or communications that the 'goods' embody or
> >contain."
> >Jim Brennan
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Kevin Grierson" <kgrierson[_at_]wilsav.com>
> >To: "CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property"
> ><CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org>
> >Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:39 AM
> >Subject: [CNI-(C)] Re: Attribution is not required
inpublicdomainmaterials
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Is it unethical and morally objectionable to pass the work of another off
as
> >one's own? Yes. Should such behavior be actionable once the copyright
and
> >author's right of attribution are gone? I think not, because the
> >consequences of such a rule are worse than the ill it would seek to cure.
> >
> >Kevin Grierson
> >
> >
> >Kevin W. Grierson
> >Willcox & Savage, P.C.
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> >
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> >
> >
> >>>>mlandau[_at_]gsu.edu 06/04/03 09:34AM >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >What is wrong with requiring attribution?
> >
> >If there is no false designation of origin, then there is no Lanhgam Act
> >problem.
> >
> >Oh, have you heard my new record, Landau's 5th symphony? The first 4
notes
> >are killer !
> >
> >I also have just finished some a painting, "Mona Lisa", she has a
wonderful
> >smile. Also, check out my new novel, "Great Expectations" and my new
play
> >"The Merchant of Venice."
> >
> >
> >It seems as all of this would be acceptable after that decision.
> >
> > Also, think of all of the public domain depression-era FSA photographs.
> >Should I be able to publish them without saying that they were taken by
> >Walker Evabns, Ben Shahn, Dorathea Lange, etc?
> >
> >I think that it is not a good decision.
> >
> >
> >Michael Landau
> >Georgia State
> >
> >
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