Legal Opinion
Weissmann v. Freeman
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 6, 1988No. 87 Civ. 6069 (MP)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND OPINION
MILTON POLLACK, Senior District Judge.
In an uncommon controversy, the issues presented are whether a medical paper represents joint or individual authorship and whether it may ground an infringement claim under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq. The action was tried to the Court at a Bench trial.
The parties are both nuclear medicine physicians. The plaintiff, Heidi S. Weiss-mann, M.D. (“Weissmann”) charges infringement by the defendant, Leonard M. Freeman, M.D. (“Freeman”), of a syllabus entitled “Hepatobiliary Imaging” which she presented at a nuclear medicine…
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Heidi S. Weissmann, M.D., Cross-Appellee v. Leonard M. Freeman, M.D., Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1989
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- Heidi S. Weissmann, M.D., Cross-Appellee v. Leonard M. Freeman, M.D., Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1989