Comments on: Shepard Fairey did not infringe AP’s copyright because AP could not have had a copyright in anything Shepard Fairey used in his Obama Hope poster.

By: Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity » Blog Archive » You can’t own facts — Tremé belongs to all of us.

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:15:56 +0000

[...] t-shirt pictured to the left does not infringe any rights anyone holds in the television series. There cannot be a copyright in a fact, so there can be no copyright in the name “Treme.” And while trademark is a distinctive [...]

By: Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity » Blog Archive » Does Westlaw infringe a lawyer’s copyright in his legal document? This lawsuit won’t tell us.

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:01:17 +0000

[...] the vast majority) of legal documents are pastiches of other documents; many are purely formulaic. The less original a document is, the less likely it will be deemed worthy of copyright [...]

By: Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity » Blog Archive » The Korean War Memorial Postage Stamp Photo Case: I was way wrong!

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:25:22 +0000

[...] reasoning is strange because, as I have pointed out before, photography itself is protected by copyright as “original” — rather than being [...]

By: Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity » Blog Archive » AP shoots itself (twice) in the Copyright Wars.

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:06:31 +0000

[...] that AP chose the photo it decided ultimately to publish. One might think these allegations reduce the extent to which Garcia can claim the shot was one so much of his own choosing. He was assigned to take the shots he took, he took a lot of them, and AP, not Garcia, chose the [...]

By: Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity » Blog Archive » Manny Garcia’s own words betray the weakness of his case.

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:07:10 +0000

[...] Garcia, who actually shot the photo at issue in the lawsuit between Shepard Fairey and the Associated Press — the photo that allegedly was the source of Shepard Fairey’s Obama Hope poster — [...]