7th Circuit Strikes Down Appeal By ‘Copyright Troll’

Mealey's (April 26, 2021, 1:16 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 23 declined a copyright owner’s call to overrule existing precedent on the doctrines of merger and scènes à faire, clarifying that in cases where a copyright provides only thin protection, an infringement claim “may move forward only if the plaintiff’s copyrighted design and the allegedly infringing design are virtually identical.”...