United States Sixth Circuit

In a copyright dispute, Plaintiff's claim that the movie "Little Nicky" infringes on his poem entitled "The Keeper" is dismissed where the two works are completely dissimilar in both their overall look and feel and in their constituent expressive elements.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/08/2004
• Decided 09/14/2004
• Published 09/14/2004

Judges

• Before MARTIN and SUTTON, Circuit Judges;  QUIST, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew J. Kochanowski (argued and briefed), Sommers, Schwartz, Silver & Schwartz, Southfield, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Herschel P. Fink (argued and briefed), Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Detroit, MI, for Defendants-Appellees.