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Not Invincible: A Cautionary Tale for Creators

Copyright Lately

Gaiman involved a dispute between Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane over co-authorship of characters from the “Spawn” series, and the Seventh Circuit in that case actually rejected an independent copyrightability requirement for “mixed media” works like comic books. Invincible #1.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

If not, the court may have to address several other interesting, rarely-litigated issues concerning the proper scope of copyright in recorded interviews. Based solely on the complaint that was filed, there are six major issues raised by the case: First, were the recorded interviews a copyright-eligible “work of authorship”?

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