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Courthouse News Service
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Skateboard art

LOS ANGELES — Skateboard art designer Wesley Humpston accuses Columbia Pictures and Tristar Pictures of using a design in the title sequence of the 2005 film “Lords of Dogtown” that is substantially similar to a piece of spray-painted wall art Humpston created in 1977.

Read the complaint here.

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