Stanford Center for Internet and Society

The clients have a small business auctioning on eBay quilts, shirts and the like from licensed fabric imprinted with Disney characters or Major League Baseball logos. After receiving several threats from the copyright holders, they filed a suit for declaratory judgment asking a court to find that their products were non-infringing works. The Clinic is not representing the clients in this suit, but will use the issues raised in the case, including the relationship between the first sale doctrine and derivative works, as a framework for legal research that will assist these clients and others in determining their rights under copyright law.