Legal Opinion
WGN Continental Broadcasting Co. v. United Video, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 30, 1981No. 81 C 1320PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
GETZENDANNER, District Judge.
Plaintiff WGN Continental Broadcasting Company (“WGN”) brought this action to enjoin defendant United Video, Inc. (“UVI”) from retransmitting WGN’s copyrighted television programming to UVI’s cable television system customers after stripping the vertical blanking interval of WGN’s TV signal of teletext information generated by WGN and substituting a Dow Jones News Service. In Counts I and IV of the complaint WGN claims, and UVI denies, that this is copyright infringement. In Counts II and III of the complaint the plaintiffs allege…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- United States v. Southwestern Cable Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Orth-O-Vision, Inc. v. Home Box OfficeDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1979
- Edison v. LubinCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1903
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Wgn Continental Broadcasting Company and Albuquerque Cable Television, Inc. v. United Video, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1982
- Eastern Microwave, Inc. v. Doubleday Sports, Inc.District Court, N.D. New York · 1982