Wall Art Distributors Inc. settled its lawsuit against a branding company for musical artists it accused of misusing copyright law to restrict sales of celebrity posters.
Wall Art and Merch Traffic LLC reached a settlement in principle, according to a Friday order in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, and Judge Philip M. Halpern dismissed the suit.
Wall Art sued Merch Traffic in May, alleging the company misused the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by filing takedown notices for 47 images of purported clients—including Harry Styles, 50 Cent, and Elton John—that Wall Art had licensed from ...
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