INTA and MPAA decry Betty Boop ruling
04 April 2011
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Eileen McDermott, New York
INTA and the Motion Picture Association of America are urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear a case that they argue conflates copyright and trade mark law and would drastically expand the so-called aesthetic functionality doctrine
Last month, a majority of the panel in Fleischer Studios v AVELA said that Fleischer Studios held neither a valid copyright nor valid trade mark for the well-known US cartoon character, Betty Boop, dismissing Fleischer’s infringement claims against AVELA.
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