Technology,
Intellectual Property
Oct. 25, 2022
California District Court holds dance moves in Fortnite did not infringe copyright
The claims in Hanagami involved a registered copyrighted work, which allowed the Court to dismiss the claims after engaging in substantive infringement analysis.
Lee S. Brenner
Venable LLPUC Hastings
Lee Brenner, chair of Venable's Entertainment and Media Litigation Group, is a trial attorney and business litigator based in the firm's Los Angeles office.
A federal district court judge in the Central District of California recently dismissed a choreographer's claims against Epic Games Inc. ("Epic Games") arising out of Epic Games' alleged use of his dance moves in its Fortnite video game. See
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