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"Copyright ruling is blow to Utah company"

"Copyright ruling is blow to Utah company": Pamela Manson of The Salt Lake Tribune has a news update that begins, "Hired to create depictions of Toyota vehicles for the automotive giant's advertising campaign, a small Utah company used the relatively new technology of digital modeling. After 80 to 100 hours of effort per vehicle, Meshwerks produced two-dimensional wire-frame depictions that appear three-dimensional on screen. The idea was to create a product that resembled each car or truck model as closely as possible for use on the Toyota Web site and in other media. The resulting unadorned images, which had no color, shading or other details, were accurate. So accurate that a federal court has ruled these depictions have no right to copyright protection."

You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, written by Circuit Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).