Metropolitan Opera Ass'n v. Metropolitan Artists, Inc.

There can be no question but that the word ‘ ‘ Metropolitan ’ ’, when used in the realm of song, long ago came to denote the Metropolitan Opera, which is and has been produced by plaintiff, Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. In Metropolitan Opera Assn. v. Gould (N. Y. L. J., Feb. 8, 1956, p. 7, col. 3) Mr. Justice Benvenga aptly declared that “ There can be no doubt that the terms ‘ Metropolitan Opera ’, ‘ Metro*573politan ’ and 1 The Met ’ have acquired a secondary meaning in the musical world as connoting the plaintiff; that plaintiff has a valuable property right in the use of those terms,…