Litchfield v. Spielberg

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1984-07-06

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EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge: The issues: (1) Did the producers of the motion picture, E. T, — The Extra Terrestrial, infringe the copyright of a musical play, Lokey from Maldemar, and (2) was summary judgment proper on the issue of substantial similarity? Litchfield wrote and copyrighted Lokey from Maldemar. Subsequently the defendants produced E. T.…

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