Legal Opinion
L.L. Bean, Inc. v. Drake Publishers, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 12, 1987No. 19-1857PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
Imitation may be the highest form of flattery, but plaintiff-appellee L.L. Bean, Inc., was neither flattered nor amused when High Society magazine published a prurient parody of Bean’s famous catalog. Defendant-appellant Drake Publishers, Inc., owns High Society, a monthly periodical featuring adult erotic entertainment. Its October 1984 issue contained a two-page article entitled “L.L. Beam’s Back-To-School-Sex-Catalog.” (Emphasis added.) The article was labelled on the magazine’s contents page as “humor” and “parody." The article displayed a facsimile of Bean’s…
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