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MGM-Pathé Communications was an American film production company that operated in Los Angeles County, California from 1990 to 1992. The company was founded and controlled by Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti through his purchase and merger of MGM/UA Communications Co. and Pathé Communications (unrelated to the French Pathé studio ).
Subafilms, Ltd. v. MGM-Pathe Communications Co. (1994) United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - 24 F.3d 1088. tl;dr: This case is about whether a movie company can sue others for making and selling copies of their movie, but the copies were made and sold outside of the US. Video Summary.
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Get Subafilms, Ltd. V. MGM-Pathe Communications Co., 24 F.3d 1088 (1994) (en banc), United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, case facts, key issues, and holdings and reasonings online today. Written and curated by real attorneys at Quimbee.
Patricia Scahill, U.S. Copyright Law and Its Extraterritorial Application: Subafilms, Ltd. v. MGM-Pathe Communications, 19 Md. J. Int'l L. 293 (1995). Available at: htp://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/mjil/vol19/iss2/5. This Notes & Comments is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UM Carey Law.
- Factual and Procedural Background
- II. The Extraterritoriality of The Copyright Act
- III. Other Arguments
- Conclusion
In 1966, the musical group The Beatles, through Subafilms, Ltd., entered into a joint venture with the Hearst Corporation to produce the animated motion picture entitled "Yellow Submarine" (the "Picture"). Over the next year, Hearst, acting on behalf of the joint venture (the "Producer"), negotiated an agreement with United Artists Corporation ("UA...
Appellees additionally contend that, if liability for "authorizing" acts of infringement depends on finding that the authorized acts themselves are cognizable under the Copyright Act, this court should find that the United States copyright laws do extendto extraterritorial acts of infringement when such acts "result in adverse effects within the Un...
Appellees raise a number of additional arguments for why the district court's judgment should be affirmed. Relying upon the Second Circuit's doctrine described above, see suprap. 1094, Appellees maintain that they may recover damages for international distribution of the Picture based on the theory that an act of direct infringement, in the form of...
We hold that the mere authorization of acts of infringement that are not cognizable under the United States copyright laws because they occur entirely outside of the United States does not state a claim for infringement under the Copyright Act. Peter Starr is overruled insofar as it held to the contrary. Accordingly, we vacate Part III of the panel...
Subafilms, Ltd. v. MGM-Pathe Communications Co.: Should Infringing Acts Authorized within the United States but Committed Extraterritorially Constitute a Valid Claim for Infringement under U.S. Copyright Law
Mgm-pathe Communications Co., Fka Mgm/ua Communications Co.and As United Artists Corporation; Mgm/ua Home Video, Inc.;warner Home Video, Inc., Warner Bros. Inc.,defendants-counter-claimants-appellants.subafilms, Ltd.; the Hearst Corp., Plaintiffs-appellants, v.
