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Waldman Publishing Corp. And Playmore Inc., Publishers v. Landoll, Inc., Martin Myers & James Landoll

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided December 22, 1994No. 477, Docket 94-7428PublishedCited by 204 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the issue whether the prohibition of “false designation of origin” in section 43(a) of the Lanham Act of 1946, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) (Supp. IV 1992) (“section 43(a)”), applies to a misattribution of authorship of a written work. The issue arises on the appeal of defendant Landoll, Inc. (“Lan-doll”) from two orders of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Charles S. Haight, Jr., Judge. The first, that of April 8, 1994, holds that plaintiffs Waldman Publishing Corp. (“Wald-man”) and Playmore Inc., Publishers…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Community for Creative Non-Violence v. ReidSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  2. Jackson Dairy, Inc. v. H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1979
  3. The Coca-Cola Company v. Tropicana Products, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1982
  4. James W. Cleary v. News Corporation and Harpercollins Publishers, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
  5. Lou Shaw Eastborne Productions, Inc. v. Richard Lindheim Michael Sloan Universal City Studios, Inc. Columbia Broadcasting Systems McA Television, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1990

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