Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Redd Horne, Inc.
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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Redd Horne, Inc., 749 F.2d 154 (3rd Circuit, 1984) was a copyright infringement case of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit over the playing video cassettes in-store of a video sale and rental store. The appeals court affirmed the decision of the district court to grant the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment and enjoin defendants from exhibiting plaintiffs' copyrighted motion pictures.[1]
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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Redd Horne, Inc. | |
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit |
Full case name | Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. v. Redd Horne, Inc. |
Argued | August 14 1984 |
Decided | November 23 1984 |
Citation(s) | 749 F.2d 154 |
Case history | |
Procedural history | Affirmed holding from 568 F.Supp. 494 (W.D. Pa. 1983) |
Holding | |
The defendants' activities constituted an unauthorized public exhibition of the plaintiffs' copyrighted motion pictures, which is copyright infringement under §107 through § 118 of the Copyright Act. | |
Court membership | |
Judge(s) sitting | Ruggero J. Aldisert, Joseph F. Weis, Jr., Edward D. Re |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Edward D. Re |
Laws applied | |
Copyright Act of 1976 |
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