CARSON v. DYNEGY, INC.

No. 02-41279.

344 F.3d 446 (2003)

William C. CARSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DYNEGY, INC.; Dynegy Holdings, Inc., formerly doing business as Dynegy, Inc.; Dynegy Marketing and Trade; Dynegy Power Corp.; DMT Holdings, Inc.; Dynegy G.P., Inc.; BG Holdings, Inc.; Dynegy Upper Holding; Dynegy Holding Company, L.L.C.; Dynegy Power Market; DMT L.P., L.L.C.; DMT G.P. L.L.C.; DMT Holdings, L.P., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 27, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ken Johnson, Sylvia Gerald Davidow, Anita Kawaja (argued), Fleming & Associates, Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Julian Clark Martin (argued), W. Scott Brown, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, for all Defendants-Appellees.

Darrell L. Barger, Hartline, Dacus, Barger, Dreyer & Kern, Corpus Christi, TX, for Dynegy Holdings Inc., Dynegy Marketing & Trade, Dynegy Power Corp., DMT Holdings Inc. and Dynegy GP Inc.

Before JONES and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges, and KAZEN, District Judge.


BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

Before this court is an appeal from the district court's grant of summary judgment in a case concerning the federal copyright laws. Appellant argues that the district court erred by (i) holding that appellees had an irrevocable, nonexclusive implied license, which precluded appellant's claim of copyright infringement; (ii) determining that the doctrine of estoppel also barred the infringement claim; (iii) holding that appellant's state-law...

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