Legal Question in Intellectual Property in California

copyrights on works by deceased artists

I'm submitting a poster to a competition, and I was wondering if depicting existing works of arts in my poster was a copyright violation? What if the works are by deceased artists, such as ancient Greek scupture, or a Picasso?


Asked on 4/06/08, 1:35 am

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Bryan Whipple Bryan R. R. Whipple, Attorney at Law

Re: copyrights on works by deceased artists

Ancient Greek sculpture is probably in the public domain for the most part, but not other people's photographs of it. Anything Picasso would be a minefield I would avoid.

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Answered on 4/06/08, 2:05 am


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