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BATJAC PRODUCTIONS INC. v. GOODTIMES HOME VIDEO

No. 97-55947.

160 F.3d 1223 (1998)

BATJAC PRODUCTIONS INC., a California Corp., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GOODTIMES HOME VIDEO CORP., a Delaware Corp.; Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 5, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bonnie E. Eskenazi, Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Helene M. Freeman, Dorsey & Whitney, New York City, for the defendant-appellee.

David O. Carson, General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office, and Alfred Mollin, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the intervenor, defendant-appellee.

Before: FLETCHER, THOMPSON and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.

FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

Batjac Productions Inc. ("Batjac") appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendant GoodTimes Home Video Corp. ("GoodTimes") and intervenor Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights ("Register"). The district court denied Batjac's claim that GoodTimes violated its copyright in the screenplay "McLintock!" and that the Register had an obligation to register the copyright of the screenplay...

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