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REPRODUCTION VS. PRACTICE OF COPYRIGHT WORKS
Disputes have often arisen over the issue of whether the conversion of a two-dimensional graphical work into a three-dimensional object involves use of copyright. In a recent interpre-tation, the Intellectual Property Office stated that the act of manufacturing a three-dimensional object by working from drawings, according to dimensions, specifications, mechanical struc-tures, etc. shown in a graphical work, is an act of putting the concepts expressed in the work into practice, and is not reproduction as defined in the Copyright Act. Therefore such actions do not infringe against rights protected under the Act.