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WICKHAM v. KNOXVILLE INTERN. ENERGY EXPOSITION

No. 83-5040.

739 F.2d 1094 (1984)

Douglas Q. WICKHAM, Trustee for the Bankruptcy Estate of Marc Arion Cardoso, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. KNOXVILLE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY EXPOSITION, INC.; Sunsphere, Inc.; Community Tectonics, Inc.; The Downtown Knoxville Association; S.H. "Bo" Roberts, Jr.; W. Stewart Evans; William S. Denton; and Hubert Bebb, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided July 12, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley M. Baker, Knoxville, Tenn., Gerard W. Ittig, argued, Michael J. Goergen, Walstad, Kasimer, Tansey & Ittig, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Clifford A. Rodgers, Baker, Worthington, Crossley, Stansberry & Woolf, Knoxville, Tenn., for Lead.

William H. Skelton, E. Bruce Foster, Jr., argued, Knoxville, Tenn., for Lead, Tectonics, Denton and Webb.

John Waters, Knoxville, Tenn., for Sunsphere.

Edwin M. Luedeka, argued, Luedeka & Neely, Robert E. Pitts, Knoxville, Tenn., for Knoxville Inter. Energy, Roberts and Stewart.

Before KENNEDY and JONES, Circuit Judges, and PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

PHILLIPS, Senior Circuit Judge.

This copyright infringement action involves the architecture of the "Sunsphere", the central theme structure of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee. The plaintiff-appellant contends that the defendants infringed drawings copyrighted by Marc Arion Cardoso. District Judge Robert L. Taylor granted defendants' motion for summary judgment, holding that a jury could not find substantial similarity between the design of the Sunsphere...

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