United States:
Fixing In A Tangible Medium Can Be Quite Painful
03 March 2016
Fox Rothschild LLP
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Tattoo artists recently demanded more than $1.1M for infringing
their copyrights. Not from the tattoo-ees, basketball stars LeBron
James, Kobe Bryant and others, but from the distributor of video
games incorporating their inked avatars. The tattoos were
"completed/published" in 2000-2006. The tattoo artists
licensed them to the plaintiff in 2012.And, as is often the case,
the copyrights were registered in 2015, just before the lawsuit was filed.
(See also Fox Rothschild's earlier
post on our
Sports Law Scoreboard blog)
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