25 October 2021Copyright

Judge sends Nirvana copyright case over Dante’s Inferno image to UK

A district judge had dismissed a lawsuit accusing Nirvana of infringing the copyright in an illustration of Dante’s ‘Upper Hell’, after determining that the appropriate forum to litigate the copyright complaint brought by a British individual, is the UK.

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