It's no secret that Hollywood has become enamored with rebooting classics from the 80's, using the same bankable leads and hoping to strike gold once again.
In every court case, a Plaintiff is required to establish that they are the "real party in interest" that suffered a "discrete and concrete injury." In a copyright case, this can get.
Last week, the Writers Guild of America reached a tentative three-year deal to resolve a writer’s strike following a labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. A major point of contention between writers and producers was the use of artificial intelligence in the screenwriting process.
Even global stardom will not make copyright woes levitate away from British superstar Dua Lipa. The pop icon is making headlines following a week of back-to-back, bi-coastal lawsuits alleging copyright infringement with her hit Levitating.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Will the Supreme Court turn Disney’s
Inside Out upside down by granting a petition for certiorari filed by the creator of The Moodsters? Two articles in the National Law Review outline the controversy between Disney and Denise Daniels, an expert on children’s emotional intelligence. In short, Daniels and her company, The Moodsters Company, sued Disney claiming
Inside Out, portraying five personified emotions battling for the mind of a young girl, infringed Daniels’ alleged copyright in The Moodsters, five characters color-coded to emotions. But both the trial court and the Ninth Circuit applied the “sufficient delineation” standard for copyrightability of characters and concluded that Daniels’ Moodsters enjoyed no copyright protection.