7th Circ. Kicks Back Illustration Infringement Case, Again

By Celeste Bott (March 31, 2023, 10:55 PM EDT) — A Seventh Circuit panel on Friday threw out an illustrator’s $3.6 million copyright infringement award and ordered a new damages trial to determine whether more than 30 of her illustrations amount to just two copyrighted compilations of work, chiding a lower court for entering summary judgment “based on the exact record we previously found insufficient.”…