United States Tenth Circuit

In a suit by an author of memoirs for copyright infringement against the publisher of a similar story, where numerous portions of the text could be seen as verbatim copying, evidence was sufficient enough to allow a jury to determine whether the works are "substantially similar."

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/19/2002
• Published 04/19/2002

Judges

• BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Brent O. Hatch (Mark R. Clements with him on the briefs) of Hatch, James & Dodge, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellant and Cross-Appellee., Mary Anne Q. Wood (Kathryn O. Balmforth of Wood Crapo LLC with her on the briefs for Defendant-Appellee and Cross-Appellant Deseret Book Company, and Kent B. Linebaugh of Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough with her on the briefs for Defendant-Appellee and Cross-Appellant Dean Hughes) of Wood Crapo LLC, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendants-Appellees and Cross-Appellants.