Legal Opinion
Baxter v. MCA, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 5, 1987No. 84-6522PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TANG, Circuit Judge:
In this copyright infringement action, plaintiff-appellant Leslie T. Baxter appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to John Williams and the other defendants-appellees. The district court granted defendants’ motion based upon its determination that no substantial similarity of expression existed as between Baxter’s copyrighted song Joy and the theme from the motion picture “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” [hereinafter cited as Theme from E.T.]. We reverse the grant of summary judgment and remand for trial.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
In 1953, Leslie Baxter…
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