Certain literary or graphic characters may, in some cases, enjoy copyright protection. Think James Bond – or Batman and even his Batmobile. Recently, the Ninth Circuit was called upon to determine ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed that “lightly sketched anthropomorphized characters representing human emotions” were not copyrightable. Daniels v. Walt Disney Co., Case No.

It probably won’t harm your child to own a mindless action toy (guns aside), but the mindful parent is also trying to help mold a better citizen during playtime. Enter The Moodsters, a new line of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Denise Daniels developed The Moodsters, a ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Moodsters© and their creator, Denise Daniels, RN, MS, are focused year-round on all the emotions that young children feel. Now, as we head into National ...

The 2015 animated film “Inside Out” was a ripoff. At least, that’s the claim of a lawsuit filed against Disney and Pixar on Monday. In the suit, filed in federal court in California, child-development ...

Some fictional characters are heroes; others are villains. Some mimic reality and others personify fantasy. And some appear in comic books and video games, while others in television shows and movies.