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Tweet If you are wondering about last year’s copyright infringement lawsuit by a tattoo artist against a video game company, here’s a quick recap. Of note is this following gem, Even though there haven’t been any stories of big legal victories by tattoo artists, there’s enough anxiety to keep lawyers imagining the possibilities, and to […]

Tweet I should clarify. The question should be, who owns the copyright to a tattoo designed by the tattoo artist? Most copyright lawyers, and enthusiasts, would know that sans a copyright transfer, the copyright belongs to the tattoo artist. So, what’s the big deal? Well, this case, Escobedo v. THQ, Inc., throws an interesting wrench in […]

Tweet It’s not just e-mails that can land you in trouble anymore. A Los Angeles gang member was convicted of first-degree murder, based on a tattoo that depicted the murder scene. According to the LA Times, Each key detail was right there: the Christmas lights that lined the roof of the liquor store where 23-year-old […]

Tweet Remember this case, Johnny Anderson vs. City of Hermosa Beach, concerning a city ordinance that banned tattoo parlors within the City of Hermosa Beach? The crux of the City’s argument was that a tattoo artist was merely a “tool,” a “medium” of sorts, for the expression of a client’s chosen design. Well, the Ninth […]

Tweet According to the City of Hermosa Beach–and the District Court for the Central District of California–they’re not. The case, Johnny Anderson vs. City of Hermosa Beach, raises the question of whether or not a tattoo artist is an artist or merely a tool for communicative content. According to the City of Hermosa Beach, the […]

Tweet A Pennsylvania State Police recruit has made a constitutional issue of a tattoo. Ronald Scavone says the police refused to hire him, after he successfully completed interviews and a background check, because he refused to “physically alter (his) body” by removing a tattoo, which he says could be easily covered up with clothing.

Tweet Could you recognize someone based on a tattoo? Kevin Brophy Jr., surfer guy, alleges that rapper, Cardi B, has misappropriated his likeness and cast him in a “false light” because the rapper has created a mixtape cover that shows, presumably, a man giving her oral sex, and that man has a back tattoo identical to […]