Legal Opinion
Dudnikov v. Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided January 28, 2008No. 06-1458PublishedCited by 654 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORSUCH, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs are eBay “power sellers.” Through the Internet auction site, they sell a variety of fabrics from their home in Colorado. This case concerns two of plaintiffs’ prints, both of which play on famous images by the artist Erté, Symphony in Black and Ebony on White. While Erté’s images depict elegant women walking aquiline dogs, plaintiffs’ prints portray Betty Boop next to her aptly named canine companion, Pudgy.
Defendants, owners of the rights to the Erté images, saw plaintiffs’ eBay auction page (which disclosed plaintiffs’ Colorado location), and came to the…
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