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Disney Enterprises, Inc. v. VidAngel, Inc. was a 2016 United States District Court for the Central District of California case in which four major Hollywood studios -- Disney, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Bros. —filed a copyright infringement complaint against VidAngel, a company which allows users to filter out objectionable ...
Air Pirates had infringed on copyrights owned by Disney when using the Mickey Mouse character in a satirical publication. Walt Disney Productions v. Air Pirates, 581 F.2d 751 (1978), was a copyright law case of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, [1] and an important precedent on the use of copyrighted characters for ...
Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.
1) A copyright is held by default with the person whose name it was taken out in, regardless of potential conflicts with state law. 2) If a work contains a mixture of original and copyright infringing material, but it is so intermingled as to be inseparable, then the copyright holder may take all profits from the work.
Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., 663 F. Supp. 706 (S.D.N.Y. 1987) was a federal case in which artist Saul Steinberg sued various parties involved with producing and promoting the 1984 movie Moscow on the Hudson, claiming that a promotional poster for the movie infringed his copyright in a magazine cover, View of the World from ...
Copyright infringement
Photographs at issue. Vanity Fair cover using Leibovitz's photograph of Moore is on the left. On the right, Nielsen's head is superimposed over the body of a model hired by Paramount. At trial, the Southern District of New York found the use to be fair. On appeal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed.
Entick v Carrington (1765) 95 ER 807 (authorities have no power which is not explicitly given to them by law; repercussions far beyond exclusive rights) Millar v. Taylor (1769) 4 Burr 2303; 98 ER 201 (copyright is perpetual) Donaldson v. Beckett (1774) 4 Burr 2408; 98 ER 257 (copyright is not perpetual) Dick v.