Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice Advance Access originally published online on April 24, 2009
Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice 2009 4(6):402-403; doi:10.1093/jiplp/jpp055
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Clouseau would have been confounded: Ninth Circuit throws out The Pink Panther joint authorship claim
Aberdeen Business School
Bradley Richlin et al. v Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.; Geoffrey Productions Inc., No. 06-55307, 9th Cir.; 2008 US App. LEXIS 12917
In a dispute surrounding The Pink Panther movie and the treatment that led to its creation, a US court had the opportunity to confirm the circumstances under which a contributor to an alleged joint work may successfully invoke a claim to joint authorship.
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