Legal Opinion
The Saturday Evening Post Company and the Curtis Publishing Company v. Rumbleseat Press, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 25, 1987No. 86-1397PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In 1979 the Saturday Evening Post Company granted Rumbleseat Press, Inc. an *1193exclusive license to manufacture porcelain dolls derived from certain illustrations done by the artist Norman Rockwell and published in the Saturday Evening Post. Later the Post (as we shall call the company and the magazine interchangeably) cancelled the license; but, contrary to the terms of the license agreement, Rumbleseat continued making the dolls. This conduct led the Post (and its parent corporation, but we can ignore this detail) to sue Rumbleseat. The Post won in the district court.…
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