Can you make a product that looks like the Batmobi... ...Court of Appeals, no. DC Comics has a legitimate copyright claim upon the Batmobile.Mark Towle, a custom car...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/23/Court-Opinion-on-Batmobile-Copyright-Is-Filled-with-Batman-References/The song we know as “Happy Birthday to You&... ...sion we know was first published in 1911, and was copyrighted in 1935. Warner/Chappell Music acquired that copyright in 1988. You may have noticed that restaurant cha... ...e early 1920s. That publication predates the 1935 copyr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/09/22/You-Are-Free-to-Sing-Happy-Birthday/We recently linked had the story of how the game Monopoly was born, tracing it to Elizabeth Magie’s The Landlord’s Game, which she patented in 1903. Parker Brothers bought the rights to a derivative game in t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/02/The-Board-Game-Trial-of-the-Century/Last week, Google Maps took an entire town away. W... ...1925 map distributed by Socony gas stations as a copyright trap. Cartographers sometimes did that so they&rs... ...lgoe on it was copied a lot.Among those countless copyright traps, Agloe achieved a rare distinction: The nam...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/01/Agloe-New-York-The-Town-That-Never-Was/"Mbube" by Solomon Linda And The Evening Birds 193... ...cumentary and then a lawsuit, in which the song's copyright was reverted to Linda's heirs. Only then did Lind...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/12/In-the-Jungle-The-Story-of-Mbube/Fifty years ago, a graphic artist named Harvey Ros... ...a hit, but neither Ball nor his company sought a copyright or a trademark.In the early 1970s, brothers Berna... ...uo; to the smile, the Brothers Spain were able to copyright the revised mark in 1971, and immediately began p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/14/Who-Really-Invented-the-Smiley-Face/(L) The infamous The Pirate Bay (R) Finn... ...nt and therefore we will sue them for copyright
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/16/Anti-Piracy-Website-Pirates-The-Pirate-Bay/You probably sing the song "Happy Birthday To You"... ...much in restaurants or movies because it's under copyright . The song's origin are not exactly clear, but it... ...e song's origin are not exactly clear, but it was copyrighted in 1935. Through a series of purchases, the right... ...he song for their fi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/02/The-New-Birthday-Song-Contest/Imagine that you spent time and money developi... ...bably take them to court! There are gray areas in copyright , though. How much of an idea is stolen or not, an...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/15/how-aunt-jemima-changed-u-s-trademark-law/In 1907, archaeologist Sir Marc... ...dated printed book, but also the oldest copyright -free /public domain work as well! Links: H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/11/the-diamond-sutra-the-worlds-oldest-copyleft-book/
