Legal Opinion
Murray Hill Publications, Inc. v. ABC Communications, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided September 30, 1999No. 2:98-cv-70884Published
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
CLELAND, District Judge.
I. Introduction
A. Background
Detroit radio personality J.P. McCarthy, who died in August, 1995, spent years hosting the morning “drive-time” show on local radio station, WJR. 1 From about 1990 onwards, the show was introduced by a theme song written by Robert Laurel, a Detroit musician who owns" both plaintiff Murray Hill Publications and plaintiff Rosary Take-One Productions. The song (“J.P.’s Theme”) was derived by Mr. Laurel from an earlier song known as “Jeannette,” also written by him. “Jeanette” had been used…
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