California Court of Appeal

In case where plaintiff claims he and his children's trusts are contractually entitled to share in the profits earned from two motion pictures defendant produced based on the Charlie's Angels television series, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed as a reasonable trier of fact could not find, based on the language of a "Copyright Assignment," that the production company that created the television series, and which plaintiff contracted with for a share of profits for photoplays, acquired the motion picture rights to the show by exercising a right connected to its right to exhibit photoplays of the series.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/08/2007
• Published 01/08/2007

Judges

• JOHNSON, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan, Samuel R. Pryor, Sally S. Liu and Matthew R. Belloni, Santa Monica, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, Martin D. Katz, Lisa N. Stutz and Jean-Paul Jassy, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent.