{"id":1289,"date":"2024-06-11T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/8th-circuit-denies-campaign-committees-attorney-fees-in-copyright-suit\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:00:13","slug":"8th-circuit-denies-campaign-committees-attorney-fees-in-copyright-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/8th-circuit-denies-campaign-committees-attorney-fees-in-copyright-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Circuit Denies Campaign Committee&#8217;s Attorney Fees in Copyright Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/292\/184700\/223623P.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit<\/a> affirmed a lower court\u2019s decision last week to deny all attorney fees to both parties after a jury concluded that former Iowa Congressman Steven Arnold King\u2019s campaign committee innocently infringed by posting a copyrighted meme, \u201cSuccess Kid,\u201d without permission.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff,\u00a0Laney Marie Griner, who owns the copyright to the meme\u2019s template photo, filed suit for copyright infringement against King and his committee, King for Congress, after the committee posted the meme\u2014a humorous online image\u2014asking for supporters to \u201cFUND OUR MEMES!!!\u201d In 2007, Griner took a photo of\u00a0her 11-month-old son, Sam, on the beach. The image went viral and\u00a0Griner registered the copyright in the \u201cSuccess Kid\u201d image in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court\u2019s decision last week to deny all attorney fees to both parties after a jury concluded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1445,1585,375,610,1149,429,1242,1529,339],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-8th","tag-attorney","tag-campaign","tag-circuit","tag-committees","tag-copyright","tag-denies","tag-fees","tag-suit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}