CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT v. CAROL PUBLISHING GROUP

No. 97-7992.

150 F.3d 132 (1998)

CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CAROL PUBLISHING GROUP, INC., Defendant-Cross Claimant-Appellant, Beth B. Golub, Defendant-Cross Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided July 10, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin L. Wulf, Beldock, Levine & Hoffman, LLP, New York City, for Defendants-Appellants.

David Dunn, Davis, Weber & Edwards, P.C., New York City, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND and WALKER, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.


JOHN M. WALKER, Jr., Circuit Judge:

This case presents two interesting and somewhat novel issues of copyright law. The first is whether The Seinfeld Aptitude Test, a trivia quiz book devoted exclusively to testing its readers' recollection of scenes and events from the fictional television series Seinfeld, takes sufficient protected expression from the original, as evidenced by the book's substantial similarity...

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