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LONE RANGER TELEVISION v. PROGRAM RADIO CORP.

No. 82-4690.

740 F.2d 718 (1984)

LONE RANGER TELEVISION, INC., a corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PROGRAM RADIO CORPORATION, a California corporation, JL Productions, Inc., a business entity, and Weston E. Lewis, Jr. aka Jim Lewis, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 26, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Schatzel, Bruce G. Spicer, Santa Clara, Cal., for plaintiff-appellee.

Thomas Doniger, Stanton & Oberstein, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellants.

Before WALLACE, KENNEDY, and CANBY, Circuit Judges.

WALLACE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from summary judgment for federal copyright infringement and state law conversion requires us to return to the yesteryear of the Lone Ranger, and to the Copyright Act of 1909. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

I

Around 1953, a Michigan company called The Lone Ranger, Incorporated owned several original scripts for radio plays about the Lone Ranger, a fictitious early Western hero...

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