On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 Peter Robinson P.M.Robinson@bham.ac.uk wrote:
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Peter is quite right. A famous decision, Corel v. Bridgeman Art Archive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp.) found that a photograph of a two dimensional object could be copyrightable.
At first glance the decision seems to be to the contrary:
Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., 36 F. Supp. 2d 191 (S.D.N.Y. 1999), was a decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, which ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be protected by copyright in the United States because the copies lack originality.
Regards
JSB