Legal Opinion
Phantom Touring, Inc. v. Affiliated Publications
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 10, 1992No. 91-1590, 91-1741PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Appellant Phantom Touring Company produces a musical-comedy version of “The Phantom of the Opera” that is not the hugely successful, widely acclaimed Broadway show later created by Andrew Lloyd Webber. In a series of articles published in late 1989, the Boston Globe queried, in a disparaging tone, whether appellant’s advertising made the distinction between the two “Phantoms” clear to the ticket-buying public. Appellant sued for defamation, 1 claiming that the newspaper falsely accused it of a deliberate effort to pass off its show — dubbed the “Fake Phantom” — as…
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