Legal Opinion
Cable News Network, Inc. v. Video Monitoring Services of America, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 4, 1991No. 90-8798PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
The technologically-induced collision between the free speech doctrine and a broadcast media-owned copyright produced the dispute in this lawsuit. In this interlocutory appeal by Video Monitoring Services, Inc. (“VMS”) from the grant of a preliminary injunction in favor of Cable News Network, Inc. (“CNN”) predicated on a claim of copyright infringement, we are asked to review both the propriety of the remedy as well as its scope. After the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia (“the district court”) entered the disputed injunction, the Supreme…
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