United States Second Circuit

Summary judgment of copyright infringement is reversed and injunction vacated as to defendant's compilation of Dorothy Parker's poems; issues of material fact exist as to whether defendant has taken any creative input by plaintiff, whose rights are limited to his selection or categorization of some works as "poems" that were written by Parker.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/07/2004
• Published 05/07/2004

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before:  WINTER, JACOBS, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Dannay,Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, New York, NY (Thomas Kjellberg, on the brief), for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark A. Rabinowitz, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, Chicago, IL (Michael A. Carrillo, on the brief), for Appellee.