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TWIN PEAKS PRODUCTIONS v. PUBLICATIONS INTERN.

Nos. 919, 1392, Dockets 92-7933, 92-7985.

996 F.2d 1366 (1993)

TWIN PEAKS PRODUCTIONS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL, LTD., Louis N. Weber, Scott Knickelbine, and Penguin USA, Inc., Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 7, 1993.

As Amended July 6, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy M. Weber, New York City (Eugene L. Girden, Margaret Ferguson, Shukat Hafer & Weber, on the brief), for defendants-appellants-cross-appellees.

Richard Lehv, New York City (Weiss Dawid Fross Zelnick & Lehrman, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee-cross-appellant.

Before: NEWMAN and WINTER, Circuit Judges, and CARMAN, Judge, United States Court of International Trade.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires adjustment of the competing rights of authors under circumstances where the work of a second author contains both comment on a well-known work of a first author and substantial portions of the normally protectable expression contained in the first work. The appeal presents several copyright and trademark issues arising out of defendants' publication of a book about plaintiff's popular television program "Twin Peaks...

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