11th Circuit: Marvel Did Not Infringe On Artist’s Hero Design

(September 12, 2024, 8:13 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — For the second time, a panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a Georgia federal judge’s dismissal of a copyright infringement suit brought by a comic book artist against Marvel Entertainment and its parent the Walt Disney Co., holding that the artist failed to show how designs of two Marvel characters themed around birds infringe upon his owl-themed superhero....