Fischer v. Viacom International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that because “the gravamen of [plaintiffs] claim is that MTVN took his ideas and used them without proper compensation”, the “rights protected by the implied contract are equivalent to the exclusive rights protected by the Copyright Act.”
• “If ... this [contract] right arises simply from an implied promise not to use another’s ideas without paying for them, then the state law action is ... preempted.”
• “A more sensible approach requires a court to examine the specific contractual rights at issue to determine whether they are equivalent to exclusive rights under the Copyright Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).