Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition
and any design in the marble is merely an attribute of the natural stone, rather than a product of human expression.
• Grover Gold creates a painting of a beach scene that includes circles of varying sizes representing bubbles, striated lines representing ocean currents, as well as triangles and curved lines representing birds and shark fins. The registration specialist will register
the claim despite the presence of the common geometric shapes.
• Gloria Grimwald paints a picture with a purple background and evenly spaced white circles:
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The registration specialist will refuse to register this claim because simple geometric symbols are not eligible for copyright protection, and the combination of the purple rectangle and the standard symmetrical arrangement of the white circles does not contain a sufficient amount of creative expression to warrant registration.
• Gemma Grayson creates a wrapping paper design that includes
circles, triangles, and stars arranged in an unusual pattern with each element portrayed in a different color:
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