Cecilia Choy, Ph.D.
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“Lightly Sketched” Characters Not Copyrightable
By Cecilia Choy, Ph.D. on Apr 2, 2020
Posted In Copyrights
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed that “lightly sketched anthropomorphized characters representing human emotions” were not copyrightable. Daniels v. Walt Disney Co., Case No. 18-55635 (9th Cir. Mar. 16, 2020) (McKeown, J.). Denise Daniels created The Moodsters Company. The Moodsters were five named characters, each color-coded to an emotion. The Moodsters...
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