Legal Opinion
Cherry River Music Co. v. Simitar Entertainment, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 9, 1999No. 99 Civ. 1127(LAK)PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
In December 1998, plaintiffs, a music publisher and the owner of the World Wrestling Foundation (“WWF”), brought out a compact disk entitled WWF — The Music, Volume 3 which contains the “entrance themes” of fourteen WWF wrestlers, the copyrights of which all are owned by the plaintiffs. The disk has been quite successful, having shipped a million and sold over 500,000 copies by mid-February.
In late January 1999, defendant Simitar Entertainment, Inc. (“Simitar”) brought out its own disk called Slammin’ Wrestling Hits, which obviously was intended to capitalize on…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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