Chapter 500
| COPYRIGHTABLE MATTER: PICTORIAL, GRAPHIC, AND SCULPTURAL WORKS |
Outline of Topics
501Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works: in general.
501.01Forms of embodiment.
502Works of art.
503Registration requirements for drawings, paintings, other pictorial works, and sculpture.
503.01Style and artistic merit.
503.02Copyrightable pictorial, graphic, and sculptural expression.
503.03Works not capable of supporting a copyright claim.
504Registration requirements for two-dimensional useful articles, three-dimensional works of artistic craftsmanship, and models.
504.01Material not subject to registration.
504.02Examples.
505Registration requirements for the shapes of three dimensional useful articles.
505.01Definition of useful article.
505.02Separability test.
505.03Separability test: conceptual basis.
505.04Separability test: physical basis.
505.05Separability test: factors not relevant in determining registrability.
506Prints.
506.01Registration requirements.
506.02Pictorial or graphic material.
506.03Uncopyrightable elements.
