16 Casa Duse, LLC v. Merkin

SACK, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Richard J. Sullivan, Judge) granting summary judgment to the plaintiff on its copyright and state-law claims, dismissing the defendant’s copyright counterclaims, and awarding the plaintiff costs and attorney’s fees. Because we agree with the district court that the plaintiff owns the copyright to all versions of the work in question, a film entitled Heads Up, and that copyright does not subsist in individual contributions to that film, we conclude that the district…