Legal Opinion
Sillman v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 3, 1957PublishedCited by 747 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFboessel, J.
Defendant Berman Swarttz Productions, Inc., (hereinafter called Swarttz) entered into separate contracts, under date of June 30, 1953, with plaintiffs and various other persons interested in the Broadway musical revue “ New Faces of 1952 ”, in order to produce a motion picture version of the stage production. Plaintiffs’ contracts may be summarized as follows:
Swarttz agreed to pay each plaintiff a certain percentage of the net profits of the picture. In exchange, The Intimate Revue Company (hereinafter called Revue), in the basic agreement, granted Swarttz the exclusive right to use the…
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