Legal Opinion
Lone Ranger Television, Inc. v. Program Radio Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 26, 1984No. 82-4690PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge:
This appeal from summary judgment for federal copyright infringement and state law conversion requires us to return to the yesteryear of the Lone Ranger, and to the Copyright Act of 1909. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.
I
Around 1953, a Michigan company called The Lone Ranger, Incorporated owned several original scripts for radio plays about the Lone Ranger, a fictitious early Western hero. In part, this case involves twelve of those scripts. The company also owned three scripts of the first adventures of the Lone Ranger it planned to use for…
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