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JACOBS v. FELIX BLOCH ERBEN VERLAG FUR BUHNE FILM

No. 98 CIV. 6623(LBS).

160 F.Supp.2d 722 (2001)

Jim JACOBS and the Estate of Warren Casey, Plaintiffs, v. FELIX BLOCH ERBEN VERLAG FUR BUHNE FILM UND FUNK KG, Grease Promotion GmbH, Theater Des Westens Gemeinnutzlge Betriebs GmbH, Brenner Holding GmbH, Thomas Krauth, and Michael Brenner, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 10, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C., Howard J. Schwartz, Morristown, NJ, for Plaintiffs Jim Jacobs and the Estate of Warren Casey.

Loeb & Loeb LLP, David M. Satnick, New York City, for Defendant Felix Bloch Erben Verlag fur Buhne Film und Funk KG.

Alston & Bird, LLP, Gregory F. Hauser, Karl Geercken, New York City, for Defendants Grease Promotion GmbH, Theater des Westens Gemeinnutzlge Betriebs GmbH, Brenner Holding GmbH, Thomas Krauth and Michael Brenner.

OPINION

SAND, District Judge.

The Plaintiffs, Jim Jacobs and the Estate of Warren Casey, are the exclusive owners of all copyrights to the musical "GREASE," which Jacobs and Casey authored. (Am.Compl.¶ 14.) On November 13, 1992, the Plaintiffs licensed to Defendant Felix Bloch Erben Verlag fur Buhne Film und Funk KG ("Felix Bloch") the right to produce "GREASE" in German-speaking Europe, but in the German...

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