Legal Opinion
Steve Ray v. ESPN, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 22, 2015No. 14-2117PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Per curiam
Steve “Wild Thing” Ray brought suit against ESPN, Inc.; ESPN Classic, Inc.; and ESPN Classic Europe, Inc. (collectively, “ESPN”), asserting state-law tort claims related to ESPN’s re-telecast of his wrestling performances. The district court 1 held that the Copyright Act preempts Ray’s claims and therefore dismissed Ray’s suit for failure to state a claim. We affirm.
I. Background
Ray wrestled professionally in the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) from 1990 to 1994. He alleges that he wrestled in the UWF for pecuniary gain and that “[e]ach [of his] match[es] was filmed for future use to…
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