Legal Opinion
Berlin v. E. C. Publications, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 27, 1963PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
METZNER, District Judge.
This is an action for copyright infringement in which the plaintiffs have moved for summary judgment and the defendants have cross-moved for the same relief, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 56. Twenty-five separate claims are set forth in the complaint.
Plaintiffs are the owners of copyrights to numerous popular songs. Defendants are the publishers and its employees of a satirical humor magazine called “Mad”. In one of the issues of the magazine there appeared as a “special bonus”, “a collection of parody lyrics to 57 old standards [songs] which reflect the idiotic world we…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Peter Pan Fabrics, Inc. And Henry Glass & Co. v. Martin Weiner Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1960
- Harold Lloyd Corporation v. WitwerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1933
- Ansehl v. Puritan Pharmaceutical Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1932
- Austris A. Wihtol, Doing Business as Kalnin, Mohr and Apsit v. Kenneth H. WellsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1956
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3Cited by2 opinions
- MCA, Inc. v. WilsonDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1976
- Gray v. Eskimo Pie CorporationDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1965