originality
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A446 | Rodney Woodland v. Montero Lamar Hill | Ninth Circuit | 2025-10-17 | Presumed Complete | copyright-infringement fair-use ninth-circuit originality photographic-copyright sui-generis-rule | Whether the Ninth Circuit's sui generis rule for determining photographic copyright infringement improperly restricts the scope of copyright protectio… | |
| 24-6839 | Ralph W. Baker, Jr. v. Ta-Nehisi P. Coates, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-03-25 | Pending | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | copyright-law expression-of-ideas intellectual-property judicial-interpretation literary-rights originality | Whether the court of appeals correctly interpreted copyright protection for an author's arrangement of words |
| 20-142 | Michael Skidmore, as Trustee for the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust v. Led Zeppelin, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-11 | Denied | Amici (4)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | copyright-act copyright-act-of-1909 copyright-protection deposit-requirement musical-works ninth-circuit originality selection-and-arrangement sheet-music tangible-medium | Whether musical works under the Copyright Act of 1909 are protected as created and fixed in a tangible medium, or limited to sheet music deposits |
| 20-132 | The Moodsters Company v. The Walt Disney Company, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | audio-visual-characters circuit-split copyright-law literary-characters originality question-of-fact-vs-law | Whether originality is the proper standard to determine character copyrightability |
| 19-560 | Jennie Nicassio v. Viacom International, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | actual-copying circuit-split copyright-infringement fair-use fairness idea-expression-dichotomy originality plot-elements scenes-a-faire wrongful-appropriation | Whether the scénes-à-faire evidence exclusion for actual copying should extend to all plot elements naturally flowing from a simple formulation of the… |