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Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions Inc. v. McDonald's Corp.

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233:. In this the judge defined successive layers of abstraction from the words themselves, which are subject to copyright, up to the most general statement of ideas, which is not. He said that the point where an expression was subject to copyright lay somewhere in between. To help find where that point was, the court defined extrinsic and intrinsic tests. In the extrinsic test the work would be analysed by an expert to determine similarities in factual aspects including, "the type of artwork involved, the materials used, the subject matter, and the setting for the subject". The intrinsic test would decide whether an "ordinary reasonable person" would consider there were substantial similarities in expression. A jury is well fitted to determine this. 31: 249:
Even a dissection of the two works reveals their similarities. The "Living Island" locale of Pufnstuf and "McDonaldland" are both imaginary worlds inhabited by anthromorphic plants and animals and other fanciful creatures. The dominant topographical features of the locales are the same: trees, caves,
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broadcasts, and examples of merchandise based on the shows and commercials. They were instructed that in finding damages they should not consider McDonald's profits, but could consider the value that McDonald's had gained by using the Kroffts' work. The jury found in favor of the Kroffts and assessed
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On damages, the court discussed at some length whether the jury should have been instructed to ignore profits. The court felt that a successful plaintiff should be entitled at least to the greater of the damages or profits, and one of the judges felt they should be entitled to the sum of the two. If
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characters. Various telephone conversations followed to discuss the concept, and on 31 August 1970 Needham sent a letter saying it was going ahead, but soon after Needham telephoned to say the campaign had been cancelled. Needham had in fact won the contract for the campaign, hired former employees
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program was launched in September 1969. The program includes various puppet characters and a boy named Jimmy who live in a fantasy land called "Living Island". The island has walking trees and books that talk. The show was very successful and generated various spin-off products such as toys, games,
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Following the remand, the trial court could not decide how much of McDonald's sales had been due to the advertisements, so could not measure the resulting profits. Instead, the court decided to calculate statutory damages using a formula based on the number of copyrights and the number of
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a pond, a road, and a castle. Both works feature a forest with talking trees that have human faces and characteristics. The characters are also similar. Both lands are governed by mayors who have disproportionately large round heads dominated by long wide mouths. They are assisted by "
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The court found that both the extrinsic and intrinsic tests showed that there was substantial similarity, rejecting the defendants' detailed list of differences, which the target audience of children would ignore. A footnote said:
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infringements, treating each commercial or promotional item as a single infringement, rather than each airing of a commercial or each sale of an item as an infringement. This yielded a total award to the Kroffts of $ 1,044,000.
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profits could not be determined accurately, the plaintiff should be entitled to "in lieu" damages. The case was remanded for an accounting, after which the district court could choose to award "in lieu" damages.
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Early in 1970, the advertising agency Needham, Harper and Steers contacted Marty Krofft asking if the Kroffts would be willing to work with Needham on an advertising campaign for the
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McDonald's character Mayor McCheese (left) and Sid and Marty Krofft's character H.R. Pufnstuf both are fictional mayors that possess disproportionately large round heads.
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Sid & Marty Krofft belong to the fifth generation of a family of puppeteers who had been successfully putting on puppet shows around the country, including
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of the Kroffts to work on the sets and costumes, and hired the person who supplied the H.R. Pufnstuf voices to make the voices for several of the
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The court rejected the claim that the First Amendment limited the degree to which copyright could be extended to
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The district court began a three-week trial by jury in November 1973. The jury was shown episodes of
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TV network asked them to create a Saturday morning TV show, and after a year of development the
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Following launch of the McDonaldland campaign, the Kroffts were unable to license or renew
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characters. The Kroffts filed a suit for copyright infringement in September 1971.
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Extrinsic and intrinsic tests may be used to determine substantial similarity
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damages at $ 50,000. Both the plaintiffs and the defendants appealed.
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heard the appeal, publishing its lengthy decision on 12 October 1977.
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children's television program had been infringed by a series of
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commercials, the first of which was broadcast in January 1971.
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comic books, lunch boxes and Kellogg's cereal commercials.
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The World of Sid & Marty Krofft at the Hollywood Bowl
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The court also noted that Needham clearly had access to
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On the question of infringement, the court quoted Judge
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Index


United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Sid and Marty Krofft
H.R. Pufnstuf
McDonald's
McDonaldland
substantial similarity
Les Poupées de Paris
Hanna-Barbera
The Banana Splits
NBC
H.R. Pufnstuf
McDonald's
Ice Capades
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Learned Hand
Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp.

Keystone cop
Lehman 1995







Carter 1977
Weil et al. 2007
"562 F.2d 1157: Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions, Inc. and Sid & Marty Krofft Productions, Inc., Plaintiffs-appellants, v. Mcdonald's Corporation and Needham, Harper & Steers, Inc., defendants"

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