Legal Opinion
Slate v. American Broadcasting Companies
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 23, 2013No. Civil Action No. 2009-1761PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BERYL A. HOWELL, District Judge.
The plaintiff Gregory Slate brings this copyright infringement action against the defendants ABC News, Inc., ABC News Interactive, Inc., and Disney/ABC International Television, Inc. (collectively, “ABC” or “ABC News”), seeking relief for what he claims was the willful and unauthorized use of less than one minute of video footage. The plaintiff filmed the footage at issue as a part of a hidden-camera investigation in Chicago in the fall of 2007 (“the Chicago footage”) — a project that the plaintiff worked on with employees of the defendants…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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3Cited by16 opinions
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