Wayne Katz

Jan 4, 2024 | lexology.com | Neil Abramson |Elise Bloom |Scott Cooper |Rob Day |Robert Freeman |Wayne Katz | +10 more

Stepping on Toes: The Fortnite Legal Dance BattleVictory Royale? Not quite. In a recent opinion, the Ninth Circuit held that Fortnite’s developer Epic Games might be liable for infringing a well-known choreographer’s copyrighted dance routine. In the Summer 2020 edition of Three Point Shot, we covered another Fortnite dance move copyright dispute, which ended in dismissal of the claims. This time around, however, an appeals court reversed the district court’s dismissal of the suit.

Mar 14, 2023 | lexology.com | Neil Abramson |Elise Bloom |Scott Cooper |Rob Day |Robert Freeman |Wayne Katz | +9 more

William Grondin (“Grondin” or “Plaintiff”), a creator and seller of hockey memorabilia, recently found himself iced out of the scope of copyright protection in his infringement claim against Fanatics, Inc. (“Fanatics” or “Defendant”) over competing puck-shaped memorabilia incorporating melted ice gathered from championship hockey matches.