Month: January 2009

A recent judgment of the District Court for the Northern District of California concerned a video game “Dead Rising” produced by Capcom in which the lead character battles with an army of zombies in a small town shopping mall, and tries to escape by helicopter. MKR owned the rights in a 1979 movie “George A Romero’s …   Read more

A fashion-themed reality television programme “Project Runway”, hosted by the supermodel Heidi Klum, was recently the subject of a format rights claim in the USA by two fashion designers (Cynthia Rodriguez and Elizabeth Zwiebach). The plaintiffs had a treatment for a show they called “American Runway” which was also a fashion-themed reality programme.  They sent …   Read more