Legal Opinion
Collins v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 7, 1939No. 361PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The question to be met at the outset is whether an appeal will lie from an order ■dismissing a claim for infringement of the copyright of a book when the court has not disposed of a claim joined with it -for unfair competition, alleged to have arisen from the use of the title of the copyrighted book as the title of an alleged infringing motion picture. In Sheppy v. Stevens, 2 Cir., 200 F. 946, we held that an appeal would not lie in a case similar to the present. There the defendant demurred ,to two separate causes of action. The demurrer to the first was…
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