A & M RECORDS, INC. v. M. V. C. DIST. CORP.

Nos. 76-1843 and 76-1844.

574 F.2d 312 (1978)

A & M RECORDS, INC., CBS, Inc., Stax Record, Inc., Virginia Wynette Jones P/K/A "Tammy Wynette" and John R. Cash P/K/A "Johnny Cash", Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. M. V. C. DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION, Sicom Electronics Corp. and Donald D. Merry, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed April 7, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott H. Dodge, Draugelis, Ashton & Scully, Plymouth, Mich., Harold W. Milton, Jr., Troy, Mich., for defendants-appellants.

Asher Rabinowitz, Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, Mich., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and WEICK and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges.


PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs1 brought an action against defendants2 (hereinafter MVC) for injunctive relief and for damages caused by MVC's unauthorized duplication and distribution of musical recordings produced by plaintiffs. This case involves "pirated" or "bootlegged" tapes which were reproductions of the original recordings marketed under a different label. See United States v. Shultz,

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