Perspective
Feb. 14, 2015
Batmobile minus Batman, just a car?
In a legal dispute over replicas of the Dark Knight's famed ride, DC Comics argues (correctly) that the car is not useful other than to play out the Batman fantasy. By Steven M. Weinberg
One of the challenges of living in a digital content-driven world is trying to divine what one can use without permission and still avoid legal ramifications. This uncertainty is due in part to the fact that neither claims of copyright nor trademarks must be registered to be protected; thus there is no single or definitive source for determining if a particular word, design or other form of content is claimed by a particular owner.
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