REAL ESTATE DATA, INC. v. SIDWELL CO.

No. 85-1938.

809 F.2d 366 (1987)

REAL ESTATE DATA, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The SIDWELL CO., and Sidwell Studio, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 8, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Phillips Connor, Hill, Van, Santen, Steadman & Simpson, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Jerome H. Torshen, Jerome H. Torshen, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CUDAHY and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.


ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

The primary question presented in this appeal is whether the district court erred in concluding that the party that commissioned the works in question, and not the independent contractor that created them, owns the copyrights to those works. For the reasons stated below, we will reverse and remand for further proceedings.

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The primary facts, as found by the district court, relevant to the disposition of this appeal...

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