AMERICAN VITAGRAPH, INC. v. LEVY

No. 79-3555.

659 F.2d 1023 (1981)

AMERICAN VITAGRAPH, INC. a Corporation, Lloyd V. Friedgen, Jr., and William J. Gleason, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ronald R. LEVY, M.D. and Cinamco, Inc., a Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 23, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. R. Rouse, Palos Verdes Estate, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Keith D. Beecher, Jessup & Beecher, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before ELY and ALARCON, Circuit Judges, and TEMPLAR, District Judge.


ELY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment action, 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201, 2202, involving copyright questions under the 1909 Copyright Act, as amended,1 17 U.S.C. §§ 10, 26. Jurisdiction rests under 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a), giving federal courts original jurisdiction of civil actions arising under an Act of Congress relating to copyrights.

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