Copyright and the creative use of visual artworks in the 1990s

摘要

This article analyzes the legal conflicts during the 1990s over the extent of copyright limitations on the use of a visual artwork within another creative work in three types of media: postmodern art, publications and movies and television. The authors conclude that if a visual work is incorporated into a film or television program such that the presence of the visual work is scarcely perceptible, such a use might be considered so insignificant that copyright law will not forbid the use.