Legal Opinion
ABC-Paramount Records, Inc. v. Topps Record Distributing Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 22, 1967No. 23038PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:
This case comes from the raucous, fast-moving, competitive world of American popular music, where nothing is more alive than the hope of success, nothing commoner than failure, nothing more ephemeral than fame, and nothing more fundamental than a smile and a shoeshine.1
Ray Curran, one of the plaintiffs and a fledgling enterpriser in entertainment, was the manager of a country club in Jacksonville, Florida. Curran’s first ven*457ture as a promoter was a large show in the Jacksonville Coliseum, scheduled for an evening in January or February of 1963. The plane carrying the…
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- Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1946
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3Cited by22 opinions
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