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The Gaylord case involves the United States licensing a photograph of a sculpture to use the photograph on a postage stamp. Although the photograph was properly registered as a derivative work of Gaylord’s sculpture, the U.S.P.S. neglected to license the right to use the underlying sculpture itself.