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10 June 2020CopyrightRory O'Neill

Second Circuit sidesteps skin copyright debate

A make-up artist has lost his copyright appeal at a US federal appeals court, but the judges declined to issue a highly-anticipated judgment on whether the human skin is a “tangible medium of expression”.

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