Legal Opinion
Morse v. Fields
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 16, 1954PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, District Judge.
This is an action for damages for copyright infringement which has been tried by the Court without a jury. 1 The plaintiff is the author of an article entitled “ ‘Hopalong’ Abramowitz”, which appeared in the September 30, 1950 issue of Collier’s Magazine. Defendant Fields was the author of a column entitled “H. Hopalong Abramowitz: Cowboy in the Bronx”, which was published by the defendant Hearst Corporation on September 17, 1951 in its newspaper, the Daily Mirror. Plaintiff claims that Fields’ article infringed his copyrighted article.
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2Cases cited16 opinions
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