Legal Opinion
United Artists Corporation v. Masterpiece Productions, Inc., and Robert S. Benjamin, Arthur B. Krim, Seymour M. Peyser
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 25, 1955No. 23169_1PublishedCited by 170 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Chief Judge.
In an action for copyright infringement and unfair trade practices involving-the right to license motion pictures for-television performance, Masterpiece Productions, Inc., a defendant, filed a counterclaim to which it sought-to join certain other persons not then before the court. The district court held that the counterclaim, which alleged unfair trade practices and conspiratorial activities on. the part of the plaintiff and additional defendants, was merely permissive and not compulsory. The court further found. that the independent jurisdiction needed to sustain the…
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