Chapter 500
COPYRIGHTABLE MATTER:
PICTORIAL, GRAPHIC, AND SCULPTURAL WORKS
501
Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works: in general. The copyright law defines "pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works" as including two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of fine, graphic, and applied art, photographs, prints and art reproductions, maps, globes, charts, technical drawings, diagrams, and models. Such works shall include works of artistic craftsmanship insofar as their form but not their mechanical or utilitarian aspects are concerned: the design of a useful article, as defined in this section, shall be considered a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work only if, and only to the extent that, such design incorporates pictorial, graphic, or sculptural features that can be identified separately from, and are capable of existing independently of, the utilitarian aspects of the article. See 17 U.S.C. 101.
501.01
Forms of embodiment. Registrable pictorial, graphic, or sculptural authorship may be embodied in a wide variety of forms. These include works of fine, graphic, and applied art; prints: photographs, holograms, and individual slides; art reproductions: maps, globes, and charts: architectural and technical drawings: diagrams, patterns, models, and the like: and advertisements. Motion pictures, film strips, slide presentations, and other audiovisual works are not "pictorial works" for the purpose of registration.
502
Works of art. These include works of the fine arts, such as paintings, other pictorial works, and sculpture, as well as works of artistic craftsmanship, such as jewelry, glassware, ceramic figurines, table service patterns, wall plaques, grave markers, toys, dolls, stuffed toy animals, models, and the separable artistic features of two-dimensional and three-dimensional useful articles.
500-1
[1984]
