· 10/4/1984
Ppx Enterprises, Inc., Mod Music, Inc., and J.H. Records, Inc. v. Audiofidelity, Inc. And Dante J. Pugliese
Citations
- 746 F.2d 120
- 224 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 340
- 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 17947
How courts have described this case
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- holding that district court was bound to accept stipulated facts in deciding motion for summary judgment
- observing that “[e]very time a record in which [plaintiffs] have a royalty interest is sold, they earn money; every time a sale is lost to a competitor, they lose potential profit”
- “straightforward commercial interests” when defendant’s sales directly reduced sales by plaintiffs licensees and netted plaintiff fewer royalties
- “Of course, the parties may not create a case by stipulating to facts which do not really exist.”
- the plaintiffs claimed to have a financial interest in sales of Jimi Hendrix recordings and claims that the defendants were marketing albums falsely claiming to contain Hendrix performances
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Judges: Newman, Pratt, Kelleher, Central, California
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