American Plastic Equipment, Inc. claimed to own the copyright in toy action figures first manufactured by Louis Marx & Co. Defendant Toytrackerz, LLC made replicas and was sued. In its original decision (blogged here and here), the court found that there were two defects in American Plastic’s chain of title. The first break was...
Read more →(Read yesterday’s post below if you haven’t yet) The court identified two breaks. The easy one was the last one – the oral assignment from Marx Toys, Inc. to the plaintiff. Of course, under § 204(a), a transfer of copyright ownership must be in writing or by operation of law. There was a second...
Read more →You have the following transactional events: Registering of copyrights for toy action figures with authorship by Louis Marx & Co. Bill of sale of Louis Marx & Co. to The Quaker Oats Company Bill of Sale of Louis Marx & Co. to Dunbee-Combex Change of Name from Dunbee-Combex to Dunbee-Combex-Marx d/b/a Louis Marx &...
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