Legal Opinion
Bourne v. Walt Disney Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 18, 1995No. Nos. 1578, 1579, Dockets 94-7793, 94-7847PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MINER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-appellant-eross-appellee Beebe Bourne, doing business as the Bourne Co. (“Bourne”), brought this copyright infringement action against defendants-appellees-cross-appellants Walt Disney Co. and Buena Vista Home Video (collectively, “Disney”).
Bourne’s first claim of infringement arose from Disney’s sale of videocassette recordings featuring Bourne’s copyrighted compositions from the motion pictures “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and “Pinocchio” (“the Compositions”). Although the Compositions were written by Disney employees, Disney had assigned the copyrights…
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