If the owner of any invention or design intentionally makes it public, a copy or reproduction may be made public by any person, without responsiblily to the owner, so far as the law of this state is concerned.
Cal. Civ. Code § 983
Products of the Mind
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Klekas v. EMI Films, Inc. (1984)
Most recently applied in Flo & Eddie, Inc. v. Pandora Media, Inc. (March 2017)
Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 574, Sec. 5.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.