Legal Opinion
Effects Associates, Inc. v. Cohen
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 20, 1990No. 88-6455PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:
What we have here is a failure to compensate. Larry Cohen, a low-budget horror movie mogul, paid less than the agreed price for special effects footage he had commissioned from Effects Associates. Cohen then used this footage without first obtaining a written license or assignment of the copyright; Effects sued for copyright infringement. We consider whether a transfer of copyright without a written agreement, an arrangement apparently not uncommon in the motion picture industry, conforms with the requirements of the Copyright Act.
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