Legal Opinion
Filia Kourtis Con Kourtis v. James Cameron International Creative Management Mario P. Kassar Jeffrey Berg Joseph Rosenberg
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 15, 2005No. 03-56703PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge.
We must decide whether the creators of the yet-unproduced film The Minotaur are collaterally estopped from pursuing a copyright infringement claim against the producers of Terminator II.
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In 1987, Filia and Constantinos Kourtis developed the concept for a film entitled The Minotaur, which details the exploits of a half-man, half-bull that can transform itself into various human and inanimate forms. The Kourtises set forth their ideas in a thirty-page “treatment” that provides a synopsis of the prospective film. They registered this material with the Worldwide…
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