LEE v. A.R.T. CO.

No. 96-2522.

125 F.3d 580 (1997)

Annie LEE and Annie Lee & Friends Company, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. A.R.T. COMPANY, also known as Albuquerque A.R.T. Company, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 18, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Scott Neville, Jr., Howse, Howse, Neville & Gray, Geraldine C. Simmons (argued), Salone, Simmons & Murray, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Joan Pennington, Joseph Krieger, Philip M. Kolehmainen, Mason, Kolehmainen, Rathburn & Wyss, Chicago, IL, George J. Netter (argued), Pasadena, CA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before BAUER, EASTERBROOK, and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.


EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Annie Lee creates works of art, which she sells through her firm Annie Lee & Friends. Deck the Walls, a chain of outlets for modestly priced art, is among the buyers of her works, which have been registered with the Register of Copyrights. One Deck the Walls store sold some of Lee's notecards and small lithographs to A.R.T. Company, which mounted the works on ceramic tiles (covering the art with transparent epoxy resin in the process...

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