Thursday, June 28, 2012

Copyright myths

People believe some weird things about copyright (and don't get me started on the other parts of this person's beliefs!).  No, you can't copyright your face.  I did once do an exam question about the copyrightability of plastic surgery, though.

2 comments:

Bruce Boyden said...

I'm curious if he actually took a photo of himself and registered it with the Copyright Office. Perhaps he mailed it to himself instead.

Rebecca Tushnet said...

Maybe he actually knew that works are born copyrighted these days.