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From: amigan@cup.portal.com (R Michael Medwid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Copyright infringement...
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Date: 31 Dec 90 03:19:20 GMT
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I find it hard to believe that making a model of a space ship similar to the
one in 2001 would be considered copyright infringement.  If you used the
name "2001" to promote your product..not *that* would probably not be
copacetic.  In art if you alter an image (an I imagine this caries over
to models as well) even slightly you have legally made something new.
For example, in Paris there is a very famous poster which features
the mona-lisa with a moustach and the letters LHOOQ at the bottom
(if you speak french, say each letter one at a time to find the hidden
meaning).  Anyhow that was not copywrite infringment of a national 
treasure evidently because the image was different..it had a moustache.

Of course Vanilla Ice (yes I know, gag me!) is being sue by the leader
of Wild Cherry because he uses a large sample of their "Play That Funky
Music White Boy" without having obtained the rights.  So really we 
need a true "leagle eagle" to help us out here.  

Out-a-here.

-Mike