Judge Laura Taylor Swain recently denied a motion for judgment on the pleadings filed by Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., a video game developer, publisher, and marketer, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, 2K Games, Inc. (together “Take-Two”). The lawsuit accuses Take-Two of committing copyright infringement due to its use of various tattoos (registered with the U.S. Copyright Office), in a popular series of basketball simulation video games. The tattoos at issue, in this case, are displayed on LeBron James, Eric Bledsoe and Kenyon Martin, all of whom are inked with these same tattoos in real life. Take-Two’s motion asserted that the case… Read more