Question. If a photograph of a public domain painting obtains protection under the copyright laws does this also apply to a digital camera photo?
If this is the case then it seems to me that since the technology is the same that when you scan a public domain book (ie take a digital picture) the same rights would accrue.
In this case might not the OCR of such a "protected" work be judged a derivitive work?
Richard Weyhrauch
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Received on Mon Oct 02 1995 - 14:51:45 GMT
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