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A Basic History Of Claymation

The term Claymation was made and trademarked in 1978 by Will Vinton, aproximately 70 years after the first claymation film.
The "first" claymation movie made was the short film "The Sculptor's Welsh Rarebit Dream" created by "The Edison Manufacturing CO."

- The most common type of clay used is plasticine clay, developed in 1892 by Claude Chavant

There are a few basic type/variants of animation techniques including

- Strata-cut animation: you start your clay in a layered clump, and as you cut away from the front of your block of layered clay you take a picture of each cut to present the animation.

- Clay painting (direct manipulation animation): this form of claymation is extremely similar to "cel" animation where the clay is applied to a plane manipulated directly from the canvas to create a painted affect.

- "Clay melting": clay melting is a form of claymation that can be either done by stop motion by frame by frame stripping the clay from its base or simply "live/realtime" filming of actually applying heat to literally melt the clay.

Leonard v Stemtech, Photography v Law Case

Andrew Paul Leonard v Stemtech Health Sciences, Inc

This case is a copyright infringement case in which a photographs of stem cells were distributed for 7 years the Stemtech website without the consent of the photographer of the original pictures consent. The plaintiff(leonard) filed for alleged infringement of 4 separate images, the first of which was dropped. The 2nd image was allegedly put on a website that sold the defendant's(Stemtech) products. For images 3 & 4 the plaintiff said they were used also on a website affiliated with the defendant's products. The plaintiff filled for a cease and desist in which the defendant removed the images from only some of its websites, but not all of them. 

The results of the case are as follows:

1. Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment be GRANTED with respect to all claims by plaintiff of infringement regarding the use of image 2.

2. Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment be GRANTED with respect to all claims by plaintiff for statutory damages pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 504(b)

3. Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment be GRANTED with respect to all claims by plaintiff for "additional profits" damages under 17 U.S.C. § 504(b)



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