The origin of the definition probably lies with everyone\u27s favorite protean decision, Baker v. Selden, 101 U.S. 99 (1879). For example, in 1924, the Second Circuit borrowed from Baker in upholding the copyright in \u27Sparky,\u27 a stuffed doll in the shape of a horse. The crucial distinction, which the court quoted from Baker, was the line between, on the one hand, designs or pictorial illustrations addressed to the taste whose object [is] the production of pleasure in their contemplation, and, on the other hand, methods of useful art [that] have their final end in application and use
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Access to innovative scientific, literary, and artistic content has never been more important to the...
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In copyright law, the marriage of beauty and utility often proves fraught. Domestic and internationa...
In copyright law, the useful articles doctrine plays a significant role in defining the limits of co...
In copyright law, the marriage of beauty and utility often proves fraught. Domestic and internationa...
In Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to resolve confusion in th...
In Star Athletica, LLC v, Varsity Brands, Inc., the Supreme Court decided the appropriate test to de...
This Article, part of a symposium on the current calls for a general revision of U.S. copyright law,...
As the very first session proclaimed, the Star Athletica case has not been a model of total clarity ...
Copyright largely consists of alienable rights and correlative duties — rights of exclusion given to...
As the very first session proclaimed, the Star Athletica case has not been a model of total clarity ...
This article is about the importance of the copyright law jurisprudence from the U.S. Court of Appea...
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands in 2017, U.S. fed...
In Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to resolve confusion in th...
Access to innovative scientific, literary, and artistic content has never been more important to the...
This article contends that a definitive account of originality as a legal construct is not possible ...
To determine if a useful article—generally ineligible for copyright protection—has pictorial, graphi...
In copyright law, the marriage of beauty and utility often proves fraught. Domestic and internationa...
In copyright law, the useful articles doctrine plays a significant role in defining the limits of co...
In copyright law, the marriage of beauty and utility often proves fraught. Domestic and internationa...
In Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to resolve confusion in th...
In Star Athletica, LLC v, Varsity Brands, Inc., the Supreme Court decided the appropriate test to de...
This Article, part of a symposium on the current calls for a general revision of U.S. copyright law,...
As the very first session proclaimed, the Star Athletica case has not been a model of total clarity ...
Copyright largely consists of alienable rights and correlative duties — rights of exclusion given to...
As the very first session proclaimed, the Star Athletica case has not been a model of total clarity ...
This article is about the importance of the copyright law jurisprudence from the U.S. Court of Appea...
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands in 2017, U.S. fed...
In Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to resolve confusion in th...
Access to innovative scientific, literary, and artistic content has never been more important to the...
This article contends that a definitive account of originality as a legal construct is not possible ...