On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Webb, Jere wrote:
[re: example under the 1909 Act]
> There must be something I am missing here. Is there an argument that
> taking a photograph of the work and distributing it is not a publication
> of painting? If widely published without notice, the copyrights went
> out the window.
Under pre-1989 law, courts were hesitant to use an infringer's distribution of a work as a divesting publication; unless the copyright owner knew of that distribution and tacitly apprived it by not objecting. Received on Thu Jan 19 2006 - 21:15:30 GMT
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