Disney Asks Supreme Court To Reject Petition Over Character Copyrightability

Mealey's (November 16, 2020, 1:16 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Nov. 13, The Walt Disney Co. filed its opposition to a petition for certiorari that centers on allegations that characters from the movie “Inside Out” infringed a group of characters called “Moodsters,” with Disney telling the U.S. Supreme Court that the standard for determining the copyrightability of characters, independent of a copyrighted work, is long settled and uniformly enforced by the federal appeals courts (The Moodsters Co. v. The Walt Disney Co., et al., No. 20-132, U.S. Sup.)....