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WGN CONTINENTAL BROADCASTING CO. v. UNITED VIDEO

No. 81-2687.

693 F.2d 622 (1982)

WGN CONTINENTAL BROADCASTING COMPANY and Albuquerque Cable Television, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED VIDEO, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 11, 1982.

Opinion on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing October 22, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don H. Reuben, Reuben & Proctor, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Alan Raywid, Cole, Raywid & Braverman, Washington, D. C., for defendant-appellee.

Before POSNER and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.

Opinion on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc October 22, 1982.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to decide a question of first impression under the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq.: to what extent does the copyright on a television program also include program material encoded in the "vertical blanking interval" of the television signal?

Each picture that flashes on a television screen is generated...

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