DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law Volume 9 Issue 1 Fall 1998: Symposium - Privacy and Publicity in a Modern Age: A Cross-Media Article 4 Analysis of the First Amendment Seinfeld Producers Remain Masters of the Copyright Domain: Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group, Inc. Susan S. Blaha Follow this and additional works at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/jatip Recommended Citation Susan S. Blaha, Seinfeld Producers Remain Masters of the Copyright Domain: Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group, Inc., 9 DePaul J. Art, Tech. & Intell. Prop. L. 83 (1998) Available at: https://via.library.depaul.edu/jatip/vol9/iss1/4 This Case Notes and Comments is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Law at Via Sapientiae. It has been accepted for inclusion in DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law by an authorized editor of Via Sapientiae. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Blaha: Seinfeld Producers Remain Masters of the Copyright Domain: Castle CASE NOTES AND COMMENTS SEINFELD PRODUCERS REMAIN MASTERS OF THE COPYRIGHT DOMAIN: CASTLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT, INC. V. CAROL PUBLISHING GROUP, INC.' INTRODUCTION On July 10, 1998, the Second Circuit ruled that one can in fact infringe a copyright of "nothing."2 In Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group, Inc., the Court of Appeals, in an opinion written by Judge John M. Walker, held that the Seinfeld Aptitude Test, a trivia test devoted exclusively to testing its readers' recollections of scenes and events from the highly successful television series Seinfeld, unlawfully copied from the original program The Castle Rock decision is noteworthy in several respects.