Ets-Hokin v. Skyy Spirits, Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 2000-08-18

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Opinion by Judge McKEOWN; Dissent by Judge D.W. NELSON. McKEOWN, Circuit Judge: This case requires us to apply copyright principles to stylized photographs of a vodka bottle. Specifically, we must decide whether professional photographer Joshua Ets-Hokin’s commercial photographs, dubbed “product shots,” of the Skyy Spirits vodka bottle merit copyright protection. Given the Copyright Act’s low threshold…

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