Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc.

Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Syllabus

Opinion of the Court→

Nintendo of America, Inc. v. Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1992) was a court case which established the rights of users to modify copyrighted works for their own use.

964 F.2d 965 LEWIS GALOOB TOYS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee v. NINTENDO OF AMERICA, INC., Defendant-Appellant No. 91-16205 United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. March 12, 1992, Argued and Submitted May 21, 1992, Filed

Counsel

Thomas G. Gallatrin, Jr., Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, New York, New York, for the defendant-appellant.

Jerome B. Falk, Jr., Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellees.

Panel Information

Before: Jerome Farris and Pamela Ann Rymer, Circuit Judges, and David V. Kenyon,^[*] District Judge.

Notes

* ^  Honorable David V. Kenyon, United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).