Forest Park Pictures v. Universal Television Network, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that it \is not clear\ whether an implied-in-fact contract can have an open price term to be filled in by industry standards
• finding that a claim for breach of an implied-in-fact contract should not be preempted by the Copyright Act
• collecting cases holding that unjust enrichment, misappropriation, and conversion claims were preempted
• “The scope of copyright for preemption purposes . . . extends beyond the scope of available copyright protection.”
• “A federal court sitting in diversity jurisdiction applies the choice of law rules of the forum state.”
• “[U]nder New York law, proof of an implied-in-fact contract requires proof of the same elements as an express contract[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).