SELLE v. GIBB

No. 78 C 3656.

567 F.Supp. 1173 (1983)

Ronald H. SELLE, Plaintiff, v. Barry GIBB, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb, a/k/a the Bee Gees, Brothers Gibb B.V., Phonodisc, Inc. (now known as Polygram Distribution, Inc.,) and Paramount Pictures Corp., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

July 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen C. Engerman, Engerman, Erlich, Jacobs & Berman, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., Jerrold Gold, Granett & Gold, P.C., New York City, for plaintiff.

Robert C. Osterberg, Abeles, Clark & Osterberg, New York City, Robert W. Bergstrom, Bergstrom, Davis & Teeple, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


Memorandum

LEIGHTON, District Judge.

This is a suit brought under the federal copyright laws to recover for the alleged infringement of a musical copyright; jurisdiction is conferred on this court by 28 U.S.C. § 1338(a). The trial, as demanded by the plaintiff, has been with a jury which, after hearing evidence limited to the issue of liability, returned a verdict in his favor on the copyright infringement claim. Defendants now move for judgment notwithstanding...

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