Visual Arts

Paintings, photographs, illustrations, and sculpture are typical examples of visual arts that copyright protects. To be a work of “visual art,” under the US statute, their a specific requirements. For example, there must be 200 or fewer copies, the work cannot have been a work for hire, and there are other requirements. Authors of a work of visual art have right s to attribution and integrity (sometimes called “moral rights” There are also certain rights an author may have when a visual work is incorporated in or made part of a building. They can be waived, but there are specific requirements for the waiver.

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