ON COMMAND VIDEO CORP. v. COLUMBIA PICTURES

No. C-89-4022 SAW (JSB).

777 F.Supp. 787 (1991)

ON COMMAND VIDEO CORPORATION, Plaintiff and Counterdefendant, v. COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Universal City Studios, Inc., the Walt Disney Company, and Warner Brothers, Inc., Defendants and Counterclaimants, Embassy Pictures, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

November 14, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey King, Jeffrey Poston, Bickel & Brewer, Washington, D.C., Michael Healy, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff and counterdefendant.

Robert D. Raven, Michael A. Jacobs of Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, Cal., Paul Goldstein, Stanford Law School, Harvey Shapiro of Sargoy, Stein, Rosen & Shapiro, New York City, Robert Kuenzel, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, San Francisco, Cal., Carole Hander, Arthur Silber, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants and counterclaimants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WEIGEL, District Judge.

Plaintiff seeks a declaratory judgment that its hotel video-movie viewing system does not infringe defendants' copyrights in the movies shown through the system. All but one of the defendants have joined to counterclaim for damages for copyright infringement by plaintiff's system.1 Before the Court are cross-motions for summary judgment on the issue of liability. Plaintiff, the designer...

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