Legal Opinion
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 17, 1989No. Nos. 86-5641, 86-5664 and 86-5677PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
Columbia Pictures, Inc. and other appellants, all of which are motion picture producers, appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc. and Kenneth Irwin, operators of La Mancha, a hotel resort in Palm Springs, California. The district court (William P. Gray, Senior United States District Judge, presiding) concluded that a hotel did not violate the Copyright Act by renting videodiscs for viewing on hotel-provided video equipment in guests’ rooms. We affirm Judge Gray’s decision.
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