Nerds in Court
Nerdy Legal Issues in the News
Archive for December 2012
TIME TO KICK THAT NASTY HOBBIT: JUDGE ISSUES TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER ON ‘AGE OF HOBBITS’ MOCKBUSTER
It was 1937 when Tolkien published “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” to wide critical acclaim, from which time it has sold an estimated 35 million to 100 million copies. It was 1993 when Disney brought a lawsuit against a company, Goodtimes Home Video Corp. in the Southern District federal court in New York. … Continue reading
