UNITED ARTISTS CORP. v. MASTERPIECE PRODUCTIONS

No. 130, Docket 23169.

221 F.2d 213 (1955)

UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. MASTERPIECE PRODUCTIONS, Inc., Defendant-Appellant, and Robert S. Benjamin, Arthur B. Krim, Seymour M. Peyser, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold M. Kennedy, New York City (Burlingham, Hupper & Kennedy and Robert A. Feltner, New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant.

Samuel J. Silverman, New York City (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, on the brief), for appellees Benjamin, Krim, and Peyser.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, HINCKS, Circuit Judge, and SMITH, District Judge.


CLARK, Chief Judge.

In an action for copyright infringement and unfair trade practices involving the right to license motion pictures for television performance, Masterpiece Productions, Inc., a defendant, filed a counterclaim to which it sought to join certain other persons not then before the court. The district court held that the counterclaim, which alleged unfair trade practices and conspiratorial activities on the part of the plaintiff and additional defendants...

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