Legal Opinion
Imperial Homes Corporation, a Florida Corporation v. Michael M. Lamont and Mrs. Michael M. Lamont, His Wife
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 13, 1972No. 71-3423PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge:
In this non-jury copyright infringement action, the district court concluded that the plaintiff-appellant had abandoned and waived its copyright rights covering a set of architectural drawings for a residence by reproducing the floor plan design therefrom in a sales promotion brochure which was distributed to induce prospective customers to employ the plaintiff to construct the home. The district court pretermitted as unnecessary any finding as to whether the defendants had copied the floor plan drawing from the brochure in developing their own set of plans for a…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Mazer v. SteinSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Baker v. SeldenSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. SaronySupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1951
- Rushton v. VitaleCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1955
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3Cited by39 opinions
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- Lottie Joplin Thomas Trust v. Crown Publishers, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1977
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