Collectibles Firm To 3rd Circuit: Hockey Sculpture Has No Protectable Elements

(April 1, 2024, 8:17 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Florida-based sports memorabilia company asks the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in its appellee brief to affirm a lower court’s finding that its hockey puck piece containing melted rink ice does not infringe the appellant’s puck-shaped item because the latter work has no copyrightable, nonutilitarian features....