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ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, ETC. v. CROOKS

No. Civ-77-560.

447 F.Supp. 243 (1978)

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION, Learning Corporation of America and Time-Life Films, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. C. N. CROOKS, Joseph S. Plesur, William Moorman, George Mueller, Richard E. Forrestel, Richard M. Pfeiffer, Frederic Sievenpiper, John Stovall, Theodore H. Ertel, Alvin J. Kraebel and Board of Cooperative Educational Services, First Supervisory District, Erie County, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. New York.

February 27, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raichle, Banning, Weiss & Halpern, Buffalo, N.Y. (R. William Stephens, Buffalo, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs.

Ellis, Kustell & Mullenhoff, Buffalo, N.Y. (Carl B. Kustell, Buffalo, N.Y., of counsel), for defendants.

CURTIN, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs are three corporations engaged in the business of producing, acquiring, and licensing educational motion picture films. On October 19, 1977, the plaintiffs filed this copyright infringement suit against the Board of Cooperative Educational Services of Erie County [BOCES], a nonprofit corporation organized under the Education Law to provide educational services to the public schools in Erie County. The complaint alleges that BOCES...

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