'Can You Copyright a Nose Job?' Law Profs Wonder
Lauri Apple · 05/29/11 03:17PMInspired by recent litigation involving the copyrightability of Mike Tyson's Maori-inspired facial tattoo, some of America's law professors have contemplated a different-but-similar issue: whether American copyright law protects nose doctors' surgical masterpieces. The answer? Probably not, but it's not completely impossible.