Legal Opinion
Granite Music Corporation v. United Artists Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 10, 1976No. 74-1541PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Before CHAMBERS, CARTER and TRASK, Circuit Judges. JAMES M. CARTER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal involves a copyright infringement action. The trial court found that plaintiff, owner of a copyright song entitled “Tiny Bubbles” (hereafter “Bubbles”), failed to show an infringement by the defendants in their composition entitled “Hiding the Wine” (hereafter “Hiding”) in the motion picture entitled The Secret of Santa Vittoria.
The issues on appeal are: (1) the admission of musical similarities, (2) instructions to the jury with respect to the defendants’ burden of proof, (3) comments made by…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- The Barbed Wire PatentSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Hoeltke v. C. M. Kemp Mfg. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1936
- Las Vegas Merchant Plumbers Ass'n v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
- Herbert Rosenthal Jewelry Corp. v. Edward and Lucy Kalpakian, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1971
- Adamson v. GillilandSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
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3Cited by38 opinions
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