Legal Issues Pertaining to the Restoration and Reconstitution of Manuscripts, Sheet Music, Paintings and Films for Marketing Purposes

摘要

Restoration and reconstitution of copyright works raise a number of important issues both in the substantive law of copyright and in private international law. This article looks at these issues against the background of the Hyperion case, which turned on the concepts of originality and subsistence, and other similar cases such as the Dead Sea Scrolls case. The latter also introduces the private international law issues to the debate.