Waldman Publishing Corp. And Playmore Inc., Publishers v. Landoll, Inc., Martin Myers & James Landoll

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that a Lanham Act claim is separate and distinct from a claim of copyright infringement
• stating that “[a] derivative work is copyrightable if it is sufficiently original”
• noting that the Copyright Act and the Lanham Act address different harms
• involving “bodily appropriation” of the appearance and “false designation of origin” of a written work
• defining “reverse passing off” as a situation “in which ‘A’ sells ‘B's’ product under ‘A's’ name”
• determining whether or not the plaintiff was the “originator” of adaptations of classic tales

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).