Hwesu S. Murray v. National Broadcasting Company, Inc. And Brandon Tartikoff, Defendants

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1988-04-18

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GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge, dissenting: Today this court holds that the idea underlying what may well be the most successful situation comedy in television history was, in 1980, so unoriginal and so en *996 trenched in the public domain that, as a matter of law, it did not constitute intellectual property protected under New York law. Because I am…

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