Gottlieb Development, LLC v. Paramount Pictures Corp.

A Silver Slugger pinball machine, whose copyrighted design elements Gottlieb (plaintiff) held, appeared in the background of a three-and-a-half-minute scene in Paramount's (defendant) two-hour movie What Women Want, sporadically visible and mostly obscured by the main character or furniture, fully visible for only a few seconds, and never acknowledged by any character or emphasized in any shot; Gottlieb sued for copyright infringement, and Paramount moved to dismiss.