A. A. Hoehling v. Universal City Studios, Inc., and Michael MacDonald Mooney

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1980-03-25

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IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge: A grant of copyright in a published work secures for its author a limited monopoly over the expression it contains. The copyright provides a financial incentive to those who would add to the corpus of existing knowledge by creating original works. Nevertheless, the protection afforded the copyright…

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