Tattoo artists recently demanded more than $1.1M for infringing their copyrights. Not from the tattoo-ees, basketball stars LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and others, but from the distributor of video games incorporating their inked avatars. The tattoos were “completed/published” in 2000-2006. The tattoo artists licensed them to the plaintiff in 2012. And, as is often the case, the copyrights were registered in 2015, just before the lawsuit was filed.
(See also Fox Rothschild’s earlier post on our Sports Law Scoreboard blog)