I think we're getting off on a tangent that isn't necessary.. Copyright gives the author of a work which can be represented in a physical medium (paper, digital, whatever) the right to determine who can have copies of that work. Thus, your Xerox Burger-Copier would produce illegal copies of the burger because the artistic representation (food art anyone?) would be copied. If you copied a picture Burger King took of a wopper and sold it, you would be in violation.. Copying blueprints is a violation.. City of New York might get sued because they took the design of the 4 firefighters around the flag and changed it to be 4 different raced people. This is a violation because they own the ideas represented in the picture (not the picture as it was used for press purposes).. So here you have an example of art being a violation..