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HOSTE v. RADIO CORP. OF AMERICA

No. 79-1561.

654 F.2d 11 (1981)

Catherine HOSTE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA Record Sales, Inc.; Allied Artists Pictures Corporation; Hill and Range Songs, Inc.; Don Robertson; Hal Blair; Vernon E. Presley, Executor of the estate of Elvis Presley, deceased; Gladys Music, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 7, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine Hoste, pro se.

Ernest I. Gifford, John F. Hunt, Van Ophem, Sheridan & Sprinkle, P.C., Birmingham, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

Herbert Rollins, Rollins & Rollins, Thomas G. Rollins, Detroit, Mich., for defendants-appellees.

Before LIVELY, MERRITT and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The plaintiff appeals from an order granting summary judgment to all defendants in this case claiming copyright infringement. Plaintiff obtained a copyright of her song "As Long As I Have You" in 1946 and a renewal in 1974 as an unpublished composition. In her pro se complaint filed on March 9, 1978, she stated that she heard Elvis Presley sing a song, "I'm Yours" on September 2, 1965 and that the Presley song was practically identical to hers except...

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