Legal Opinion
Bridgeman Art Library, Ltd. v. Corel Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 2, 1999No. 97 Civ. 6232(LAK)PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
On November 13, 1998, this Court granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs copyright infringement claim on the alternative grounds that the allegedly infringed works — color transparencies of paintings which themselves are in the public domain — were not original and therefore not permissible subjects of valid copyright and, in any ease, were not infringed. 1 It applied United Kingdom law in determining whether plaintiffs transparencies were copyrightable. 2 The Court noted, however, that it would have reached the same…
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