Lone Ranger, Inc. v. Cox

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for damages and for injunction based upon alleged infringement of copyright and unfair competition. The plaintiff is the Lone Ranger, Inc., a Michigan corporation, which since the year 1933 has been broadcasting over the radio copyrighted dramatic serial stories featuring the heroic exploits of a mythical western cowboy, “The Lone Ranger”, who rides about masked and on a white horse, called “Silver”, championing the cause of the oppressed and redressing the wrongs of the community. Plaintiff has licensed a comic strip, entitled “The Lone Ranger”,…