COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC. v. PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE INV., INC.

Nos. 86-5641, 86-5664 and 86-5677.

866 F.2d 278 (1989)

COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.; Embassy Pictures; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios, Inc.; Walt Disney Productions; Warner Bros., Inc.; CBS, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE INVESTORS, INC., dba La Mancha Private Club & Villas; Kenneth F. Irwin, Defendants-Appellees. COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios, Inc.; Walt Disney Productions; Warner Bros., Inc.; CBS, Inc.; Embassy Pictures, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE INVESTORS, INC., dba La Mancha Private Club & Villas; Kenneth F. Irwin; Erland Kyllonen, Defendants-Appellees. COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC.; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Twentieth Century-Fox Distributing Corporation; Universal City Studios, Inc.; Walt Disney Productions; Warner Bros., Inc.; CBS, Inc.; Embassy Pictures, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE INVESTORS, INC., dba La Mancha Private Club & Villas; Kenneth F. Irwin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Reargued and Submitted March 22, 1988.

Decided January 17, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Kroft, Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman, Beverly Hills, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jeffrey W. King, Collier, Shannon, Rill & Scott, Washington, D.C., for defendants-appellees.

Before PREGERSON, ALARCON and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.


O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

Columbia Pictures, Inc. and other appellants, all of which are motion picture producers, appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc. and Kenneth Irwin, operators of La Mancha, a hotel resort in Palm Springs, California. The district court (William P. Gray, Senior United States District Judge, presiding) concluded that a hotel did not violate the Copyright Act by renting videodiscs...

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