P.M. BRIEFING : People Magazine Rival Loses Suit
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NEW YORK — People magazine won a round in the battle of the checkout lines when a federal judge said a rival magazine designed a copycat cover and must change it.
U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet issued a preliminary injunction barring Globe Communications Corp., which has published Celebrity Plus since January, 1987, from using elements of the People cover format.
Time Inc., which owns the 15-year-old magazine, sued last month over the People-like lettering and design of the Celebrity Plus cover, even after Globe changed the dot over the “i” in Celebrity to a star and added the words “A Globe Publication” to the cover.
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