Legal Opinion
Moore v. Lighthouse Pub. Co., Inc.
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided April 5, 1977No. Civ. A. CV476-266PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER ON DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND PLAINTIFFS’ REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
LAWRENCE, District Judge.
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This action is brought for infringement of copyright pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a). Plaintiffs seek injunctive relief and damages, claiming substantial similarity and identicality between its guide map of Savannah and the allegedly infringing map of Lighthouse Publishing Company.
The defendant has filed a motion for summary judgment based on the pleadings, exhibits and an affidavit in which the commercial art student who prepared defendant’s map of…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Mazer v. SteinSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
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- Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. SaronySupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- L. Batlin & Son, Inc. v. Jeffrey Snyder D/B/A J. S. N. Y. And Etna Products Co., Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Pacific and Southern Co., Inc. v. DuncanDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1983