Intellectual Property Law

Chapter 16 Putting It Into Words

In 1992, your employer, Book Publishing Inc., created a collection of photographs by
five foreign photographers, called Portraits of Europe. All of the photos were in the
public domain in the United States at that time (but not in their countries of origin)
because the photographers failed to include copyright notices on their photographs (at a
time when the United States required such renewals). Draft a short paragraph explaining
to the general counsel of Book Publishing Inc. the rights of the photographers and the
rights of Book Publishing Inc. to the work.