== Question about the copyright eligibility of a movie prop == 

 Greetings. I've been impressed with your knowledge of copyright issues, and I was hoping you might have some insight about this question. Obviously a sculpture in a museum is eligible for copyright protection in the U.S., and obviously the design of a trash can is not. There's a lot of gray area in between. I know that copyright eligibility can be murky territory due to the lack of case law. But do you have any insight into this particular situation? (And is this case, described here, relevant?) All the best, –