The International Trade Commission voted Wednesday to begin...
The International Trade Commission voted Wednesday to begin an investigation of whether imports of a children’s TV show carried on the Disney Channel, called Mr. Young, violate Section 337 of the Tariff Act by infringing copyrights held by E.T. Radcliffe…
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and Emir Tiar. The program is a comedy about a student who becomes the teacher of his class. The June 7 complaint (CD June 13 p18) said the show violates a copyright Radcliffe holds on a pilot for a TV program he wrote called Student Teacher. The allegedly infringing show is produced in Canada by Thunderbird, and imported to the U.S. from Canada and aired by Disney Channel, the petition said. Radcliffe and Tiar requested an exclusion order and cease-and-desist orders. The ITC named Disney, Thunderbird Films and Mindset Television as respondents (http://1.usa.gov/13QPuPB). A Disney spokeswoman declined to comment.