Chicago Style Productions, Inc. v. Chicago Sun Times, Inc.
Case Date: 05/02/2000
Court: 1st District Appellate
Docket No: 1-99-2526
Chicago Style Productions, Inc., v. Chicago Sun Times, Inc., No. 1-99-25262nd District, May 2, 2000SECOND DIVISION
PRESIDING JUSTICE COUSINS delivered the opinion of the court: The plaintiff brought this action under the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act (815 ILCS 505/1et seq. (West 1996)). The plaintiff alleged that the defendant newspaper had stolen its idea for a television show to beproduced in conjunction with a series of newspaper articles. The trial court granted the defendant's motion to dismiss undersection 2-619 of the Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5/2-619 (West 1996)), on the basis that the plaintiff's action waspreempted by the federal Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. |