GIANGRASSO v. CBS, INC.

No. 80 CV 1293.

534 F.Supp. 472 (1982)

Salvatore GIANGRASSO and Steve Pietrofesa, Plaintiffs, v. CBS, INC., MTM Enterprises, Inc., and Hugh Wilson, Defendants.

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

March 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Malone, Mineola, N. Y., for plaintiffs.

Pryor, Cashman, Sherman & Flynn by Stephen F. Huff, Donald S. Zakarin, New York City, for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

NEAHER, District Judge.

The subject of this action is the alleged infringement of a radio play script and promotional presentation written by plaintiffs, which they copyrighted in August 1976.1 The copyrighted work is about a radio station and its staff, and a "remote" broadcast the station sets up, which is interrupted by a robbery. In a general manner these same subjects appear in an episode...

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