Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop

MEMORANDUM

CANNELLA, District Judge.

Motion by the defendants for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as a matter of law, made pursuant to Rule 56(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, is denied.

In this copyright infringement action the plaintiffs, author and illustrator, allege that the defendants unlawfully copied their work, “My Mother Is The Most Beautiful Woman In The World” by virtue of the defendants’ television production and subsequent magazine publication of a “substantially similar” folk story. On this motion it is not necessary to fully set forth the facts of this case…