Legal Opinion
Dumas v. Gommerman
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 13, 1989No. 87-6542PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Defendants appeal the grant of a preliminary injunction restraining them from reproducing and marketing works of art in which plaintiffs claim copyrights. This copyright infringement case requires us to construe for the first time in this circuit the work for hire provisions of the 1976 Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.
I. FACTS
The parties dispute the ownership of copyrights in four works of art (the “ITT works” 1). The ITT works were produced in 1979 by Patrick Nagel, a graphic artist and commercial illustrator, on contract to the advertising agency of D’Arcy,…
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