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“Clark Rockefeller” Picture Ruling Addresses Copyrightable Elements of News Photographs

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The First Circuit Court of Appeals has decided a copyright case that addresses the important elements of what constitutes an expressive work capable of protection.  The lines of what can be protected in news photography may not be as simple as the First Circuit opinion suggests.  In 2008 the bizarre case of Christian Gerhartsreiter—a man… Continue Reading