Trinity Memorial Hospital of Cudahy, Inc. v. Associated Hospital Service, Inc.

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• “even if Miss Gracen’s painting and drawing had enough originality to be copyrightable as derivative works, she could not copyright them unless she had authority to use [the underlying] copyrighted materials”
• “[T]he question is not whether Miss Gracen was licensed to make a derivative work but whether she was also licensed to exhibit [her] painting and to copyright it.... Even if [Gracen] was authorized to exhibit her derivative works, she may not have been authorized to copyright them.”
• “[T]he question is not whether Miss Gracen was licensed to make a derivative work but whether she was also licensed to exhibit [her] painting and to copyright it. . . . Even if [Gracen] was authorized to exhibit her derivative works, she may not have been authorized to copyright them.”

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