Legal Opinion
Hirsch v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.
District Court, S.D. California
Decided January 16, 1937No. 787-YPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
YANKWICH, District Judge.
The plaintiff, Hortense Hirsch, has brought suit against Paramount Pictures, Inc., Mack Gordon, Harry Revel, and others, charging infringement of a copyrighted musical composition entitled “Lady of Love” upon which she had secured a copyright registration as an unpublished work on July 16, 1930. In the complaint, Mack Gordon, a writer of lyrics, and Harry Revel, a composer of popular songs, while in the employ of the motion picture corporation, are charged by the plaintiff to have appropriated eight bars of her musical composition and incorporated it into a musical…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1936
- Fred Fisher, Inc. v. DillinghamDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1924
- American Code Co. v. BensingerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1922
- Gerlach-Barklow Co. v. Morris & Bendien, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1927
- West Publishing Co. v. Edward Thompson Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York · 1909
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Greenbie v. NobleDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1957
- Cain v. Universal Pictures Co.District Court, S.D. California · 1942
- Gardenia Flowers, Inc. v. Joseph Markovits, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1968
- Kustoff v. ChaplinCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1941
- Northern Music Corp. v. King Record Distributing Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1952
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