Photo by Jennifer Graylock/Ford Motor Company http://www.flickr.com/people/[email protected] Ford Motor Company from USA [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons Visual Image Protection: When does copyright law protect a...
Visual Image Protection: Who should own the copyright in a selfie that is composed, art-directed, and shot by a monkey? A new lawsuit has been filed here in federal court by PETA seeking to have Naruto, the monkey, declared the "author" of his smiling selfie gone...
Visual Image Protection: Can a ccheerleader outfit have enough pep in its design to be protected by copyright? According to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal in Varsity Brands v. Star Athletica, (August 19, 2015), the answer is "Yay!" The challenge with any...
Brand Image and Visual Image Protection: Trademark law protects Nike's famous Jumpman logo of Michael Jordan (above right), and copyright law protects the rights of the photographer who shot the photograph (above left) upon which the logo was based. So...
