Précis
trademark
a limited property right in a particular word, phrase, or symbol that is used to identify a manufacturer or sponsor of a good or the provider of a service. See 15 U.S.C. 1051
This case – which upended the widely-held notion that photographic reproductions of two-dimensional artworks in the public domain were themselves eligible for
copyright
A property right in an original work of authorship (including literary, musical, dramatic, choreographic, pictorial, graphic, sculptural, and architectural works; motion pictures and other audiovisual works; and sound recordings) fixed in any tangible medium of expression, giving the holder the exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, perform, and display the work (Black’s Law Dictionary (8th ed. 2004)).
copyright protection – effectively curtailed the extent to which museums and other owners of art and art images could stop people from making copies of photographs of two-dimensional, public domain artworks in their collections. Ruling on a suit brought by an art image library against a computer software manufacturer it suspected of copying its images, a U.S. federal district court held that . . . .
