RIDGEWAY

v.

RIDGEWAY

Citator

Cited By

• Walt Disney Prods. v. The AIR Pirates, 581 F.2d 751 (9th Cir. 1978)
  …942); Hill v. Whalen & Martell, [*755] Inc., 220 F. 359 (S.D.N.Y.1914); 1 Nimmer on Copyright § 30.9 It is true that this Court’s opinion in Warner Brothers Pictures v. Columbia Broadcasting System, 216 F. 2d 945 (9th Cir. 1954), certiorari denied, 348 U.S. 971, 75 S.Ct. 532, 99 L.Ed. 756, lends some support to the position that characters ordinarily are not copyrightable. There the mystery writer Dashiell Hammett and his publisher entered into a 1930 contract with Warner Brothers giving the movie producti…
• Goodis v. United Artists Television, Inc., 425 F.2d 397 (2d Cir. 1970)
  …of the valuable characters he created in that one work, when he may well desire to create sequels of his own using these same characters. Accord, Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, 216 F. 2d 945 (9 Cir. 1954), cert. denied, 348 U.S. 971, 75 S.Ct. 532, 99 L.Ed. 756 (1955).1 We further note, contrary to our brother Lumbard’s view, that the issue of the right of defendants to use the characters from Dark Passage in new plot situations was properly raised by appellant before the distr…
• Gordon v. Vincent Youmans, Inc., 358 F.2d 261 (2d Cir. 1965)
  …the assignment, absent clear evidence of a contrary intent, rights not expressly granted will be held to have been reseiwed by the assignor. Warner Bros. Pictures v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 216 F. 2d 945, 949 (9 Cir. 1954), cert. denied, 348 U.S. 971, 75 S.Ct. 532, 99 L.Ed. 756 (1955), and authorities cited. Id. at 949 n. 3. Specifically, in construing an assignment transferring renewal copyright interests, we have held that “the circumstances justifying the transfer of the right of renewal mus…