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C. Dale Quisenberry

is a seasoned AV Preeminent-Rated attorney with over 27 years’ experience in intellectual property law, including a nationwide IP litigation practice. His practice also includes domestic and international patent prosecution, registering trademarks and copyrights, licensing IP rights, non-infringement analyses and opinion preparation, due diligence in mergers and acquisitions, and counseling clients on a broad range of IP issues, including design-around consultation, preparing agreements, product clearance studies, freedom to operate opinions, strategic portfolio management, and trade secret audits.

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Lessons From Jerry Seinfeld’s Second Circuit Copyright Win

You may have seen a web series featuring Jerry Seinfeld called Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. The basic premise of the show is that Seinfeld and another famous comedian take a drive in a classic car and stop along the way at a coffee shop to share stories. It’s essentially a moving talk show without an audience. Examples of comedians who’ve appeared on the show include Tina Fey, Jim Carrey, Stephen Colbert, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Jimmy Fallon and many others. One notable exception to the guest being a comedian occurred when then-sitting President Obama was Seinfeld’s guest. The series debuted on the Sony-owned Crackle video streaming platform and moved over to Netflix for its tenth season in July 2018. What you may not know is that there has been litigation surrounding the series. On February 9, 2018, plaintiff Christian Charles filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York City alleging copyright infringement and related claims against Seinfeld and a number of other defendants involved in the series. The case is Christian Charles v. Jerry Seinfeld et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Case No. 18-cv-01196. The following facts are taken from Charles’s Second Amended Complaint (i.e., this is Charles’s version of events, not Seinfeld’s).