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UNITED ARTISTS CORP. v. FORD MOTOR CO.

No. 76 Civ. 4444 (LBS).

483 F.Supp. 89 (1980)

UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION, the Azimuth Company, Inc., Mirisch Films, Inc., Geoffrey Productions, Inc. and Depatie-Freleng Enterprises, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc., Frank Johnson, Jack Lane, Lyman D. Gridley, Robert Dusseau, Var Heyl, Edward A. Soukup, Ray Swenson, Vern Spohn, Jim Sherwood, Owen Jones, Individually and as presidents of the regional Lincoln-Mercury Dealers Associations, Phil Kimmelman Associates, Inc., Does One to Fifty, inclusive, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

January 3, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, New York City, for plaintiffs; Gerald Meyer, Martha R. Overall, Martin Stein, and Elizabeth Greenspan, New York City, of counsel.

Coudert Bros., New York City, for defendants; Eugene L. Girden, Pamela G. Ostrager and R. David Jacobs, New York City, of counsel.

SAND, District Judge.

The principal issue to be resolved in this case, tried to the Court on the issue of liability only, is whether the use in defendants' television commercials of an animated humanoid feline character infringes on any proprietary rights of the plaintiffs who are the owners or assignees of copyrights in the motion pictures entitled "The Pink Panther" and "The Return of the Pink Panther".1 We have concluded that it does...

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