Comments on: The Korean War Memorial Postage Stamp Photo Case: I was way wrong! But I still think I was right, and I think the case is bad for art.

By: Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity » Blog Archive » It ain’t over ’til it’s over — Fairey Judge says Obama Hope poster is not fair use, but don’t necessarily believe him.

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:15:07 +0000

[...] First, of course, I am convinced as a legal matter that Fairey’s appropriation of the photo constituted fair use. Of course, I’ve been wrong before. [...]

By: Scholarly Communications @ Duke » A pyrrhic victory

Scholarly Communications @ Duke » A pyrrhic victory — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:14:42 +0000

[...] of the lower court’s ruling that the stamp makes fair use of the statues; see comments here and here (with a link to the full decision). These commentators are rightly troubled by the finding on appeal that the stamp is not a [...]

By: Links 28/2/2010: Fedora GNU/Linux at Computer Recycling Center | Boycott Novell

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:50:00 +0000

[...] The Korean War Memorial Postage Stamp Photo Case: I was way wrong! But I still think I was right, an… Consider me dumbfounded, or just plain dumb. I thought the copyright infringement case brought by the sculptor of the Korean War War Veterans Memorial (above, left) against the U.S. Postal Service for the use of the memorial’s image in a postage stamp (above, right) was an “easy case” — that the stamp constituted fair use of the image of the memorial because, among other things, I thought the image was sufficiently “transformative” of the memorial itself to constitute a creative work in its own right. [...]

By: A sign that our courts may not have a clue about the proper place of copyright « A Man With A Ph.D.

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:31:14 +0000

[...] Federal Circuit has ruled on the appeal and stunningly decided that this isn’t fair use, claiming that it’s not, in fact, transformative. I’m somewhat amazed — as is law [...]

By: You Get The . Info » US Postage Stamp Found To Be Infringing On Copyright Over Statues In US Korean War Memorial – 3210th Edition

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:03:43 +0000

[...] Federal Circuit has ruled on the appeal and stunningly decided that this isn’t fair use, claiming that it’s not, in fact, transformative. I’m somewhat amazed — as is law [...]