Legal Opinion
Mag Jewelry Co., Inc. v. Cherokee, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 8, 2007No. 06-1556, 06-2127PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
In December 2001, plaintiff Mag Jewelry Company (“Mag”) purchased some costume jewelry at a Target store in Rhode Island. The necklaces, whose pendants were comprised of four crystal stones in the shape of an angel, were of interest to Mag because it holds a copyright on that “crystal angel” design, and Target was not one of Mag’s customers. Mag subsequently filed this copyright infringement action against Target Corporation and its supplier, Style Accessories, Inc. (“Style”). 1 The defendants denied copying Mag’s angel, claiming that their jewelry was based on an…
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