Herbert L. Cohen, Dba Bizarre Music, Co. v. Paramount Pictures Corp., a Corporation

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• concluding that “[t]elevision and videocassette display ... have very little in common besides the fact that a conventional monitor of a television set may be used both to receive television signals and to exhibit a videocassette”
• distinguishing viewing a film on a videocassette, where the “entertainment is controlled within the home, at the viewer’s complete discretion,” and viewing a film on a television channel, which is “controlled entirely by the intermediary”
• company with a right to record musical composition for film and display film on television also sold and rented videocassettes to general public
• license analyzed to determine what uses it affirmatively permits
• reversal of summary judgment in favor of licensee

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