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FOREST PARK PICTURES v. UNIVERSAL TELEVISION

Docket No. 11-2011-cv.

683 F.3d 424 (2012)

FOREST PARK PICTURES, Tove Christensen, and Hayden Christensen, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNIVERSAL TELEVISION NETWORK, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 26, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Marek ( James W. Halter , on the brief), Liddle & Robinson, L.L.P., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Susan Weiner , NBCUniversal Media, LLC, New York, NY ( Robert Penchina and Amanda M. Leith , Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, L.L.P., New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: WALKER, RAGGI and LIVINGSTON, Circuit Judges.

JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:

This dispute over the concept for a television show presents the question of the extent to which the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq., preempts contract claims involving copyrightable property. Plaintiffs-Appellants Forest Park Pictures, Hayden Christensen, and Tove Christensen (collectively, "Forest Park") developed an idea for a television series and created a writing that embodied it,

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