US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Dr Seuss Enterprises LP v ComicMix LLC, Hauman, Friedman and Templeton, Case No. 3:16-cv-02779-JLS-BGS, 18 December 2020. By an opinion on 18 December 2020, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in favour of Dr Seuss Enterprises’ claim of copyright infringement. The court held that the defendant’s mash-up of Star Trek and Dr Seuss’s universes were too closely related to the original to be considered a parody under the American fair use doctrine …
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Mindaugas Beniušis, Paulius Jurčys and Mantas Rimkevičius, Oh, The Places You Went Too Boldly! – Dr Seuss Enterprises wins appeal in fair use case on Star Trek mash-up, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpab088. Published: 8 May 2021.
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