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Maron Pictures Ltd. v. Sam Eigen, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, No. B280738 · judgment February 15, 2019

Certiorari denied · November 12, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. How can any state court make conclusions in relation to motion picture rights without referring to the Copyright Act to make a determination?

  2. Pursuant to 17 U.S.C. §301(a), if all legal or equitable rights that a plaintiff asserts under rights that are equivalent those protected within the general scope of copyright as specified by section 106 then

  3. How can the State of California stop a Copyright Owner from receiving bi-annual accounting and reporting as legally required by Federal Copyright Law (17 U.S.C §119(b)), and stop him receiving his royalties owed?

  4. How can the State of California forfeit a Copyright Owner of his rights pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 106, thus stopping him from exploiting his copyright protected work in the remaining global territories pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 106(3), which is constitutionally protected under The Copyright Act of 1976 and under The Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Janice Ryan Mazur
Mazur & Mazur LLC

For respondent
Richard Lehman Breisch Charnley
Charnley Rian LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Nov 12 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 23 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/8/2019.
  3. Oct 15 2019
    Reply of petitioner Maron Pictures Ltd. filed.
  4. Oct 07 2019
    Brief of respondents Sam Eigen et al. in opposition filed.
  5. Sep 23 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including October 7, 2019.
  6. Sep 18 2019
    Motion to extend the time to file a response from September 27, 2019 to October 7, 2019, submitted to The Clerk.
  7. May 29 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 27, 2019)