The author conducted an experiment to determine where the United States Copyright Office draws the line between copyrightable pictorial works and pictorial works that lack sufficient creativity to merit registration. This article describes the experiment and its results and reproduces the ten works used to conduct the experiment. Questioning the adage that “a picture is worth 1,000 words,” the article also adapts the works into concise written descriptions, which become useful proxies for judging the magnitude of creativity involved. The article concludes with a few observations and suggestions for further research.