The nation’s leading designer of cheerleader apparel isn’t doing any flips over a U.S. Supreme Court decision to determine whether their designs can be copyrighted.

The high court granted certiorari Monday to decide what appellate courts have described as one of the most vexing issues in copyright law: whether pictorial, sculptural or graphic designs are conceptually separate from otherwise functional articles—such as clothing or furniture—and therefore copyrightable.

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