GENER-VILLAR v. ADCOM GROUP, INC.

Nos. 04-2194, 04-2212.

417 F.3d 201 (2005)

Frank GENER-VILLAR, d/b/a Gener Advertising, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. ADCOM GROUP, INC.; Debbie Alonso; Supermercados Mr. Special, Inc.; Santos Alonso-Maldonado, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 4, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edelmiro Salas González, with whom José Luis Ramírez de León was on brief, for appellant.

Ramon L. Walker Merino, with whom Walker Merino Law Office was on brief, for appellees.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.


PER CURIAM.

These appeals involve a copyright infringement claim stemming from a dispute over commercial graphic images produced by appellant under a contract with appellee Adcom. The parties had litigated the ownership of the images themselves in the Puerto Rico Circuit Court of Appeals. That court held that, as a matter of Puerto Rico law, the actual images belonged to Adcom. Appellant then obtained a copyright to the images and brought this federal action. The...

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