Legal Opinion
Andreas v. Volkswagen of America, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 21, 2003No. 02-2309, 02-2420PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HANSEN, Circuit Judge.
A jury awarded Brian Andreas a total of $965,000 in his copyright infringement action against Volkswagen of America, Inc., doing business as Audi of America, Inc. (hereinafter “Audi”) and McKinney & Silver, Inc. (hereinafter “M & S”), Audi’s advertising agency. The jury found that the defendants violated federal copyright law when M & S included a phrase from one of Andreas’s copyrighted works in a television commercial that it created for the introduction of the Audi TT coupe. Andreas appeals the district court’s grant of judgment as a matter of law to Audi on Andreas’s…
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