Legal Opinion
Weber v. Geffen Records, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 9, 1999No. 98 Civ. 0311(CBM)PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOTLEY, District Judge.
Plaintiff Christopher G. Weber claims that his former bandmates, after joining the music group “Guns N’ Roses,” wrongly excluded him from the proceeds of two musical compositions he had co-written with them years earlier. Plaintiff presses a federal Lanham Act cause of action and state law causes of action for an accounting of profits, unjust enrichment, and unfair competition. Defendants have moved to dismiss. For the reasons given below, defendants’ motions to dismiss are granted in their entirety and this action is dismissed.
I. Background
A. History of the…
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