Put some time aside and read this case, in which comic book greats Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane tussle over ownership of characters that Gaiman created for McFarlane’s Spawn comic book (including Medieval Spawn, pictured). It’s worth the read just to hear Judge Posner tells us the legend of Spawn. Judge Posner’s discusses what can
Cite Judge Posner to your kids (gloss over the dictum point):
“A reader of unillustrated fiction completes the work in his mind; the reader of a comic book or the viewer of a movie is passive. That is why kids lose a lot when they don’t read fiction, even when the movies and TV that
Rights-owners of LOTR sue DVD distributor for trademark and copyright infringement, via EntLawDigest.
According to AP, Western Kentucky University has sued Mediaset, a media company owned by Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, in Rome, alleging that Mediaset’s Gabibbo character (left) infringes its Big Red mascot. The article reports that the creator of the Gabibbo character admitted in an interview to copying the character.