coin or medal is almost always protected to the extent that the underlying line drawing is protected. In practice, the mint almost always uses their own employees to sculpt their coins and medals, so the sculpture of a U.S. The sculpture is a derivative work of the design, and the two are theoretically separately copyrightable. The sculpture of a coin or medal is its three-dimensional figure.Coin and medal designs may be produced by mint employees, third-party contractors, or private citizens. It does not contain any depth information. The design of a coin or medal is a two-dimensional line drawing.In order for a photograph of a coin or medal to be freely usable, each of these three people's contributions must be in the public domain or freely licensed. There are three people whose work goes into a photograph of a coin or medal: the designer, the sculptor, and the photographer. coins and medals.Īmerican Veterans Disabled for Life Silver Dollar, 2010, obverse coins and medals, please see User:Mysterymanblue/Copyright statuses of U.S. For a list of the copyright statuses of various U.S. coin or medal is in the public domain or not. This page will detail some general rules to help determine if the design of a U.S. In either of these cases, the coin or medal is protected by copyright and is not eligible to be hosted on Wikimedia Commons. based on intellectual property originally created by third parties and transferred to the government.based on intellectual property owned by third parties and licensed to the government or originally created by third parties, or.
However, some coins and medals are either:
Most coins and medals produced by the United States Mint are in the public domain because they were created by employees of the federal government as part of their official duties.
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