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Satava v. Lowry: glass jellyfish and originality

Decision date · 20 March 2003

Context photograph: The Ninth Circuit’s Browning Courthouse, San Francisco.
Context photograph: The Ninth Circuit’s Browning Courthouse, San Francisco. Blackhorsemedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Resized

The dispute

Two glass artists disputed similarities between their sculptures depicting jellyfish.

The decision

The court reversed the preliminary injunction and distinguished natural features and standard glassmaking elements from original expression.

Source

Ninth Circuit · 323 F.3d 805

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