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DAVID v. SHOWTIME/THE MOVIE CHANNEL, INC.

No. 85 Civ. 9017 (CHT).

697 F.Supp. 752 (1988)

Hal DAVID, et al., Plaintiffs, v. SHOWTIME/THE MOVIE CHANNEL, INC., Defendant.

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

October 18, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (Jay Topkis, Allan Blumstein, David E. Nachman, David S. Nalven, of counsel), Bernard Korman (Ross Charap, I. Fred Koenigsberg, of counsel), New York City, for plaintiffs.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges (R. Bruce Rich, Kenneth L. Steinthal, Suzanne E. Hawkins, of counsel), New York City, for defendant.

OPINION

TENNEY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, individual members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ("ASCAP") bring this copyright infringment action under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq. (1983), against defendant Showtime/The Movie Channel, Inc. ("SMC"). Defendant neither contests the validity of plaintiffs' copyrights nor denies that Showtime and The Movie Channel both broadcast the works at issue in this...

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