AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSIC COMPANY v. Turner Entertainment Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a breach of contract claim is preempted if it is merely based on allegations that the defendant did something that the copyright laws reserve exclusively to the plaintiff’
• holding preemption is appropriate where unjust enrichment claim does not allege that the defendants were enriched by anything other than copyright infringement
• stating that a “ ‘reverse passing off P claim is equivalent to a claim for copyright infringement”
• explaining that an unjust enrichment claim may succeed “to the extent plaintiffs can show that defendants have been unjustly enriched by material beyond copyright protection”
• noting that in “the Second Circuit, it is well settled that claims for tortious interference based on the unauthorized publication of a work protected by the Copyright Act are preempted”
• construing plaintiffs claim, which it had denominated as “passing off,” as part of the “reverse passing off variety,” where plaintiff had not alleged that the films in question came from another source, but rather that defendant took plaintiffs goods and passed them off as their own

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