Yvette Marine v. Virgin Records America, Inc.

52 F.3d 333 NOTICE: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 provides that dispositions other than opinions or orders designated for publication are not precedential and should not be cited except when relevant under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. Yvette MARINE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VIRGIN RECORDS AMERICA, INC., Defendant-Appellee. No. 93-56253. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 6, 1995. * Decided April 12, 1995. 1 Before: BROWNING and BEEZER, Circuit Judges, and HAGGERTY, * District Judge. 2 MEMORANDUM ** 3 Marine waived her right to challenge the jury instruction defining "copyrightable expression." After agreeing with the court's modification of her Proposed Instruction No. 22, which incorporated a paragraph from her Proposed Instruction No. 22A, Marine failed to object to the court's decision not to use the rest of No. 22A's language. Fed.R.Civ.P. 51; Glover v. BIC Corp., 6 F.3d 1318, 1325-26 (9th Cir.1993). 4 Marine also waived her right to challenge the jury instruction regarding the "work made for hire" doctrine because the court used one of the two instructions that she proposed. See Gilchrist v. Jim…