[SML] Video projectors or Ellipsoids for outside projection?

[Joe]

Certainly, the Gobo approach is a tangible item.  In a quick search, I found there were rulings that things like websites are copyrighted.  I didn't go into detail, but for things like public performances, before the ditigal age, any sort of "fixation" of the performance was sufficient to copyright it.  So, perhaps recording the digital art on a hard drive is sufficient "fixation".  Though signage, copyright is not normally an issue, as it is normally reproducing other things that are copyrighted themselves.

-Joe Dunfee
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On Tuesday, August 20, 2024 at 11:39:35 AM EDT, Richard Niederberg via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote: 

Can the Projection itself be “a Work in a Tangible Medium” for legal purposes? (Not the original image in the instrument doing the projection). It may matter…