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CASES
1950-1959List of Cases
| Year | Country | Case Name | Court | Complaining Work | Defending Work | Complaining Author | Defending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | US | Shapiro, Bernstein v. Miracle Record | N.D. Ill. | Yancey Special | Long Gone | Meade Lewis | Alphonso Tompkins and Lewis Simpkins |
| 1951 | US | Jones v. Supreme Music | S.D.N.Y. | Just an Old Fashioned Mother and Dad | Near You | Thelma Jones | Francis Craig |
| 1952 | US | Northern Music v. King Record Distribution | S.D.N.Y. | Tonight He Sailed Again | I Love You, Yes I Do | Guy B. Wood and Sol Marcus | Henry B. Glover |
| 1953 | US | Overman v. Loesser | 9th Cir. | Wonderful You | On a Slow Boat to China | Robert Overman | Frank Loesser |
| 1954 | US | Robbins v. Alamo | S.D.N.Y. | Theme for 1946 movie, "The Killers" | Theme for TV show "Dragnet" | Miklos Rozsa | Walter Schumann |
| 1954 | US | Mills Music v. Cromwell Music | S.D.N.Y. | Tzena, Tzena | Tzena, Tzena | Issachar Miron & Julius Grossman | Issachar Miron & Julius Grossman |
| 1956 | US | Robertson v. Batten | S.D. Cal. | The Happy Whistler | Ad for San Francisco Brewing Company | Donald Irwin Robertson | Song Ads, Inc. |
| 1956 | US | Smith v. Muehlebach Brewing | W.D. Mo. | Proposed Advertising Jingle for Muehlebach Beer | Time for Muehlebach | Leonard Smith | Muehlebach Brewing |
| 1956 | US | Wihtol v. Wells | 7th Cir. | My God and I | My God and I | I.B. Sergei (Wihtol) | Kenneth H. Wells |
| 1958 | US | Cholvin v. B & F Music | 7th Cir. | When the Sun Bids the Sky Goodnight | While We Dream | Homer Cholvin and Norman Stade | Kaczmarek |
| 1959 | US | Dorchester Music v. National Broadcasting Company | S.D. Cal. | Rendezvous | I Dreamed | Fred Spielman | Charles Green |
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