'Success Kid' Meme Fight Tests Limits Of Copyright Law

By Andrew Karpan (March 12, 2024, 8:24 PM EDT) -- An Eighth Circuit panel considered Tuesday the question of how far federal copyright law stretches to cover the use of memes while debating the effect of last year's landmark Warhol ruling on a suit against a former U.S. representative's use of the "Success Kid" meme in a fundraising post....

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