Legal Opinion
Harris v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 21, 1959PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HERLANDS, District Judge.
I
In this copyright infringement action, plaintiff moves for summary judgment (F.R.Civ.P. rule 56, 28 U.S.C.A.) upon the ground “that it appears from a comparison of the defendant’s story with the plaintiff’s story, each of which is attached to the plaintiff’s complaint, that the defendant’s story was copied from the plaintiff’s story as matter of law, and that there is in this action no genuine issue as to any material fact.”
The plaintiff is the author of a serialized story about Elizabeth Taylor, the motion picture actress. The three instal-ments of the plaintiff’s…
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