Re: VMs: Re: VMS-List-Archive Search Engine

[Greg Ewing <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Roux <lroux@xxxxxxx>:

> The key is that a drawing, picture, or any other image of an object
> is "owned" by the artist.  The original object does not need to be
> copyrighted to imbue that property on the image.

Personally I don't think it should be possible to claim copyright over
an image that's just a straight reproduction of something else that's
not covered by copyright. But the law apparently says otherwise.

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