500-6
503
Registration requirements for drawings, paintings, other pictorial works, and sculpture. (cont'd)
503.02
Copyrightable pictorial, graphic and sculptural expression. (cont'd)
503.02(b)
Minimal standards: sculptural material. (cont'd)
Examples:
1)
Registration in Class VA is requested for a design or model of a table lamp. Cast in plaster of Paris, the design features the head of a horse mounted on an iron horseshoe with toe and heel calks which supports the entire fixture. Electrical wiring is concealed within the plaster casting. Practice: If the head of the horse is original, registration may be considered on that basis. However, the general idea of embellishing a lighting fixture with a work of art is not copyrightable. The same is true of the decorative idea of using a horseshoe as support for a lamp base, regardless of the pleasing effect thereby achieved.
2)
A toy manufacturer conceives a novel idea for a toy consisting of multicolored geometrical spheres, cubes, and cylinders of varying sizes. All of these parts or pieces are magnetized, and will adhere to one another when placed in close proximity. Thus, it is possible to construct an indefinite variety of shapes and figures by means of the magnetized parts or pieces. The manufacturer desires to protect the three-dimensional aspects of the toy before publication occurs. He applies to the
[1984]
