KURLAN v. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM

Docket No. L.A. 22094.

40 Cal.2d 799 (1953)

256 P.2d 962

ARTHUR KURLAN, Appellant, v. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC., (a Corporation) et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 29, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fendler, Weber & Lerner, Harold A. Fendler and Daniel A. Weber for Appellant.

Aubrey I. Finn, Pacht, Tannenbaum & Ross, Clore Warne, Gordon Stulberg and Maxwell E. Greenberg, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant.

O'Melveny & Myers, Homer I. Mitchell, W.B. Carman and Harned Pettus Hoose for Respondents.

Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, Loeb & Loeb, Herman F. Selvin and Harry L. Gershon, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


EDMONDS, J.

Arthur Kurlan is suing Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., and others for damages upon the ground that they copied and used a proposed radio program owned by him. As in Weitzenkorn v. Lesser, ante, p. 778 [256 P.2d 947], the appeal is from a judgment entered upon an order sustaining the demurrers of the defendants without leave to amend.

[1a] For his first cause of action, Kurlan alleges...

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