United States Ninth Circuit

Art sculptures at issue were composed of unprotectable ideas and standard elements that are part of the public domain, and the combination of those elements is unprotectable under the copyright law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/10/2003
• Decided 03/20/2003
• Published 03/20/2003

Judges

• Before:  SILVERMAN and GOULD, Circuit Judges, and WEINER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Delbert J. Barnard,Barnard & Pauly, Seattle, WA, for the defendants-appellants., Roger R. Myers and Lisa M. Sitkin, Steinhart & Falconer, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.