Legal Opinion
De Acosta v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 13, 1944No. 82PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff has recovered a judgment below based on literary property in the “heart interest” which she has added to the life of a historical character with the avowed intent of making a biographical screen play palatable to the movie audiences of America. The historical character is that of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, who lived a long and very useful life from 1821 to 1912, in which, however, most of her biographers have found no love romance, though a few have hinted somewhat vaguely at the possibility, without personalizing the hero. Plaintiff…
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