Loew's Inc. v. Superior Court

The petitioners seek to prohibit the respondent superior court from entertaining jurisdiction'of an action brought against the petitioners and others as defendants to recover damages for alleged misappropriation of a literary and dramatic work claimed to be the exclusive property of one Al Rosen. In the complaint in the pending action, the plaintiff, Al Rosen, alleged that he is the owner by assignment of a common law copyright in an unpublished dramatic composition and motion picture scenario entitled “The Mad Dog of Europe”; that in 1933 the work was submitted by him to the defendants,…