Brown v. Lyle Stuart, Inc.

Plaintiff Helen Gurley Brown is the author and plaintiff Bernard Geis Associates the publisher of a book entitled “Sex and the Single Girl”. Plaintiff Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., has purchased the exclusive motion picture rights in the book and its title.

Defendant Lyle Stuart, Inc., is the publisher and defendant Albert Ellis the author of a book entitled 11 Sex and the Single Man”.

Publication of “ Sex and the Single Girl ” commenced in May, 1962. It appears from uncontradicted testimony and I find that defendant Ellis was informed of the proposed title of Mrs. Brown’s book prior to its…