Legal Opinion
June Roth v. Nathan Pritikin and Patrick M. McGrady Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 20, 1983No. 1322, Docket 83-7013PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
Contracting parties often discover they might have gained a more advantageous arrangement than their original bargain if they had the power of clairvoyance. Not infrequently, with the benefit of hindsight, one may come to believe the terms agreed upon at a time past, unfairly deprived him of the compensation which, because of later events, seems more appropriate.
In the dispute before us, June Roth created certain recipes which were incorporated into what proved to be a best-selling book. She now invokes the Copyright Act of 1978 to challenge a district judge’s…
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