What does duct-taping a banana to a wall have to do with video game law?

🍌 It’s one of my favorite copyright cases. 🍌

In 2019, an artist named Maurizio Cattelan, duct-taped a banana to a wall at Art Basel Miami.  It was the talk of the show, and he sold reproductions for $120k to $150k each.

By the way, he called the work, “comedian.” 🤣

There was just one problem. An artist named Joe Morford already had a registered copyright for his own banana-on-a-wall art piece.  He called it Banana and Orange. 🍌 + 🍊

He sued Cattelan for copyright infringement.

👩‍⚖️ The court ruled that there was no copyright violation.

❓ But what was the court’s rationale? And what does this have to do with video games?

If you understand how the court analyzed these duct taped bananas, you can apply that to video game copyright disputes.

I’ll cover the court’s analysis in the next video.