[1] C. Elvin Feltner, Jr., and the corporation he owns, Krypton International Corporation, operate 3 television stations which ran various television shows licensed from Columbia Pictures, including Who's the Boss?, Silver Spoons, Hart to Hart, and T. J. Hooker.

After becoming delinquent in royalty payments, and being unable to resolve the impasse over the debt owed, Columbia revoked their license to run the shows.

The court found every broadcast of every episode run on every television station to be a separate infringement, awarded $20,000 for each of the 440 acts, for a total of $8,800,000 in damages.

Thus, the defendant Feltner was entitled to a jury trial on the issue of the amount of statutory damages.

[3] Feltner's petition to the Supreme Court to hear the case for a second time was unsuccessful, leaving the $31.68 million award intact.