Legal Opinion
Dean v. Burrows
District Court, E.D. Tennessee
Decided February 9, 1989No. CIV-3-87-087PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JORDAN, District Judge.
This is an action for copyright infringement brought by the plaintiff, Belinda Dean, who does business as Specialty Ceramics and Molds, against Ben T. Burrows, Katie M. Burrows, individually and doing business as Action Molds, and Gary Bennett, Cheryl Bennett, individually and doing business as Bennett Molds. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants individually, through their businesses and through a conspiracy infringed a registered copyright in a sculptural work entitled by the plaintiff as the Pikl’d Pig (pig), which is a ceramic figurine of a sow…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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