Harris v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
1Opinion of the Court
MANDELBAUM, District Judge.
The plaintiff applies for a temporary injunction to restrain the defendant from distributing and exhibiting a motion picture entitled “Brigham Young” unless she receives screen credit as the author of the original story and co-author of the motion picture treatment.
The relief sought is predicated upon the contention that the failure of the defendant to give her the proper screen credit is a fraud upon her in that she is deprived of publicity and credit to which she, is entitled, and that a fraud is being perpetrated upon the public at large in that all of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Jones v. American Law Book Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
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