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[Stuart Yeates <stuart.yeates AT oucs.ox.ac.uk>]

Rob Myers wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2005, at 23:56, Andrea Rota wrote:
> 
> 
>>To make a long story short: I'm trying to imagine how physical art
>>works, like sculptures, and CC licenses could be somehow connected in
>>order to use e.g. a sculpture contest as a promotion event for CC...
>>
>>I know CC licenses do not apply to physical objects strictly speaking,
>>but I hope that somebody has lateral-thinking suggestions on  
>>this... :)
> 
> 
> (I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.)
> 
> Sculptures are explicitly covered by the 1988 copyright act. So you  
> get copyright on sculptures. The Creative Commons licenses are  
> copyright licenses. So you can CC license a sculpture.
> 
> For permanent, public, outside sculpture, you can photograph/film/ 
> draw the work without infringing copyright (is this still the case?).  
> So presumably the license wouldn't cut in for a CC-licensed permanent  
> public sculpture.

(I'm not a lawyer either, this isn't legal advice either)

As detailed in this blog:

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/007251.html

this appears not to be the case.

cheers
stuart
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