Klekas v. EMI Films, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that before passage of the 1976 Act, works not protected by the federal copyright statute were protected by state law
• unpublished work retained common law copyright until it was publicly released, and thereafter, anyone could copy it unless the expressionist had received a statutory copyright

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Walter E. Heller Western, Inc. v. Tecrim Corp.
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-11-13· cited 28×
• Selby v. New Line Cinema Corp.
  C.D. California· 2000-03-06· cited 27×
• Self-Realization Fellowship Church v. Ananda Church of Self-Realization
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-03-23· cited 22×
• Rokos v. Peck
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-06-19· cited 20×
• Van Dusen v. Southeast First Nat. Bank
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-10-29· cited 14×
• Thurman v. Whitfield v. Norman Lear, Tandem Productions, Inc., Tat Communications Co., Topper Carew and Rainbow Television Workshop, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1984-12-14· cited 13×
• Long v. Cordain
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2014-12-31· cited 13×
• Robert H. Jacobs, Inc. v. Westoaks Realtors, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1984-08-24· cited 9×
• Ryder v. Lightstorm Entertainment
  California Court of Appeal· 2016-04-22
• Norman v. Ross
  California Court of Appeal· 2024-04-23

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Desny v. Wilder
  California Supreme Court· 1956-06-28· cited 239×
• Norman Birnbaum, B. Leonard Avery and Mary Rule MacMillen Plaintiffs v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1978-11-09· cited 211×
• Weitzenkorn v. Lesser
  California Supreme Court· 1953-04-29· cited 120×
• Stanley v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1950-08-04· cited 76×
• LaRosa v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1981-08-19· cited 61×
• Orth-O-Vision, Inc. v. Home Box Office
  S.D. New York· 1979-06-27· cited 58×
• Sonya Jason v. Jane Fonda
  Ninth Circuit· 1982-12-01· cited 50×
• Golding v. R.K.O. Pictures, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1950-08-04· cited 46×
• C. Brian Burke, M.D. v. National Broadcasting Company, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1979-05-17· cited 44×
• Faris v. Enberg
  California Court of Appeal· 1979-09-27· cited 43×
• Jason v. Fonda
  C.D. California· 1981-09-21· cited 39×
• Columbia Pictures Corp. v. National Broadcasting Co.
  S.D. California· 1955-12-09· cited 31×
• Smith v. Paul
  California Court of Appeal· 1959-10-27· cited 29×
• Burtis v. Universal Pictures Co., Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1953-04-29· cited 28×
• Meltzer v. Zoller
  D. New Jersey· 1981-08-17· cited 28×
• DC Comics, Inc. v. Filmation Associates
  S.D. New York· 1980-03-21· cited 26×
• Dellar v. Samuel Goldwyn, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1945-06-25· cited 25×
• Mann v. Columbia Pictures, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1982-02-09· cited 16×
• Read v. Turner
  California Court of Appeal· 1966-01-20· cited 16×
• Robert C. Mention v. Henry Brandt Gessell
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-08-26· cited 15×