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Fanart for Sale: Navigating Copyright and Trademark Risks

By / August 5, 2025

Crowded convention aisles often feature tables piled high with vivid prints of iconic game protagonists, anime heroines, and nostalgic cartoon mascots. Shoppers delight in seeing fresh artistic spins on familiar favorites, and individual artists rely on those sales to recoup travel costs, or even finance full-time creative careers. Yet every charming mash-up or stylized portrait …

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Fourth Circuit affirms dismissal of frivolous $4 Billion copyright claim

By / December 19, 2015

Chambers v. Amazon. Unpublished. So, this case isn’t setting any precedent. It’s not going to make a casebook any time soon. But it is fun interesting. Roland Chambers, Jr., appealed the district court’s order dismissing his copyright infringement lawsuit. Chambers sued Amazon, Apple, CD Baby and others. He claimed (sort of) that each was liable …

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