Opinion ID: 781994
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Rogers v. Grimaldi Test

Text: 68 Finally, a third approach is the one developed by the Second Circuit in Rogers v. Grimaldi and adopted by the district court in this case. Under Rogers, a title will be protected unless it has no artistic relevance to the underlying work or, if there is artistic relevance, the title explicitly misleads as to the source or the content of the work. Rogers, 875 F.2d at 999. This test was explicitly adopted by the Fifth Circuit in Westchester Media v. PRL USA Holdings, Inc., 214 F.3d 658, 664-65 (5th Cir.2000), and by a panel of the Ninth Circuit in Mattel, 296 F.3d at 902. It was also adopted by a district court in the Third Circuit in Seale v. Gramercy Pictures, 949 F.Supp. 331, 339 (1996). 69