Legal Opinion
Williams v. Crichton
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 22, 1996No. 1233, Docket 94-7951PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:
Geoffrey T. Williams (“Williams”) appeals a summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Lawrence M. McKenna, Judge, entered August 25, 1994, in favor of Appel-lees Michael Crichton, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Random House, Inc., Universal City Studios, Inc., MCA, Inc., Amblin Entertainment, Inc., Steven Spieiberg, and David Koepp, on Williams’s claim of copyright infringement. 860 F.Supp. 158 (S.D.N.Y.1994). Williams asserts that the district court erred in concluding that Williams’s works and the Appel-lees’ works were…
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