Federal Judge Tosses Copyright, Lanham Act Claims Over Children’s Books

Mealey's (April 30, 2018, 11:55 AM EDT) -- PITTSBURGH — Although acknowledging that two children’s books share “some similarity,” a Pennsylvania federal judge on April 27 deemed those similarities a “random scattershot” of aspects that would be expected by two works expressing the same unprotectable idea (Jennie Nicassio v. Viacom International Inc., et al., No. 17-805, W.D. Pa., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70730)....