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TELEPROMPTER CORP. v. CBS

No. 72-1628.

415 U.S. 394 (1974)

TELEPROMPTER CORP. ET AL. v. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC., ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 4, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Barnard argued the cause for petitioners in No. 72-1628 and for respondents in No. 72-1633. With him on the briefs were R. Michael Duncan, Charles F. Lettow, and David Z. Rosensweig.

Asa D. Sokolow and Seymour Graubard argued the cause for respondents in No. 72-1628 and for petitioners in No. 72-1633. With them on the briefs were Charles H. Miller, Royal E. Blakeman, Bertrand H. Weidberg, and Eugene Z. DuBose.†

MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiffs in this litigation, creators and producers of televised programs copyrighted under the provisions of the Copyright Act of 1909, as amended, 17 U. S. C. § 1 et seq., commenced suit in 1964 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, claiming that the defendants had infringed their copyrights by intercepting broadcast transmissions of copyrighted

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