The case has a complicated genesis, but it’s being brought by Rearden, a Silicon Valley company asserting ownership over a visual effects technology called MOVA that captures the facial performance of an actor wearing makeup and processes the data into computer-generated imagery. The judge has allowed Rearden to move forward with a copyright claim based on alleged theft of software on the VFX vendor’s computers.
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