{"id":518949,"date":"2010-04-07T07:21:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100331\/1824018824.shtml"},"modified":"2010-04-07T07:21:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:21:27","slug":"another-lawsuit-over-costume-copyrights-gorilla-holding-a-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518949","title":{"rendered":"Another Lawsuit Over Costume Copyrights: Gorilla Holding A Cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following our recent story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20100325\/0310488711.shtml\">copyright<\/a> on Mardis Gras costumes, it seems that now we&#8217;re hearing more and more about costume copyrights.  <a href=\"http:\/\/thresq.hollywoodreporter.com\/2010\/03\/hollywood-docket-top-5-weinstein-hoodwinked-producer-cbs-affiliates-on-nbc-deal-no-more-dvds-in-spai.html\" >THREsq<\/a> points us to the news of a lawsuit involving the maker <a href=\"http:\/\/reporter.blogs.com\/files\/ohsd-14302984106.pdf\" >of those &#8220;gorilla holding a cage&#8221; Halloween costumes<\/a> (pdf) claiming that a competing gorilla-holding-cage costume maker was violating its copyrights:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4040\/4480603272_3ce04b3e63.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><object id=\"_ds_32353929\" name=\"_ds_32353929\" width=\"450\" height=\"550\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"doc_id=32353929&#038;mem_id=715794&#038;doc_type=pdf&#038;fullscreen=0&#038;allowdownload=1\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/viewer.docstoc.com\/\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nWhile there may be arguments over the copyrightability of the costume itself, notice that the lawsuit takes this even further, and throws in the claim of <i>copyright inducement<\/i> in asking retailers to sell the costume, with the argument being that the maker of the costume is now &#8220;inducing&#8221; the retailers to infringe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100331\/1824018824.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100331\/1824018824.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100331\/1824018824&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=3c842cab5a1c044d8bd7509c0474900b&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=3c842cab5a1c044d8bd7509c0474900b&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=FcEmcB28ndE:-PUXboEijXk:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=FcEmcB28ndE:-PUXboEijXk:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=FcEmcB28ndE:-PUXboEijXk:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/FcEmcB28ndE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following our recent story about copyright on Mardis Gras costumes, it seems that now we&#8217;re hearing more and more about costume copyrights. THREsq points us to the news of a lawsuit involving the maker of those &#8220;gorilla holding a cage&#8221; Halloween costumes (pdf) claiming that a competing gorilla-holding-cage costume maker was violating its copyrights: While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}