Intellectual Property
Mar. 7, 2014
Who owns world's most famous selfie?
The most interesting question about Ellen's (or Bradley Cooper's?) selfie taken at the Oscars is whether it's even copyrightable.
Dan D. Nabel
Principal Counsel
Riot Games
Dan also teaches Video Game Law at USC Gould. His new book, "Video Game Law in a Nutshell," will be available in July 2018 from West Academic."
In 2012, law professor Justin Hughes published an article in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology that raised serious questions about how courts have analyzed the Copyright Act's originality requirement as it applies to photography. Hughes concluded that in a world where we constantly record and photograph both ourselves and others, "the whole idea of originality in photography may come under renewed scrutiny."
Hughes may be on to something. In today's digital world, ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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