Silver v. Television City, Inc.

Opinion by

Montgomery, J.,

This appeal by the defendant, Television City, Inc., which operates a commercial television station and broadcasting system known as WTAE-Channel 4, is from a judgment in favor of the appellee-plaintiff, Sam Silver, for |7,500 entered on a jury verdict in his favor in an action of assumpsit to recover for the use of a program known as “Air Your Gripe” which appelleeplaintiff claimed to be his property protected by a common-law copyright.

Two questions are presented to ús. ' The first is whether plaintiff-appellee’s prográm -was a new and novel idea reduced to concrete…