Vidor v. Serlin

Desmond, Oh. J.

In 1954 Charles Vidor, a producer of motion pictures, made a written agreement with defendant Eomola Nijinsky whereby Mrs. Nijinsky purported to sell to Vidor the exclusive motion-picture, television, radio and allied rights in two books written by Mrs. Nijinsky, of both of which she held the recorded copyright, and which described the life and works of her late husband, the famous ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Concurrently with that agreemlEt, Mrs. Nijinsky gave Vidor a separate instrument of assignAnt of the same rights. The assignment was recorded in thAlnited States…