Society of Survivors of Riga Ghetto, Inc. v. Huttenbach

OPINION OF THE COURT

Helen E. Freedman, J.

This case addresses the issue of the rights of an author and a publisher where the author has granted full property rights *922in a work to the publisher, but where the manuscript remains unpublished as a result of a disagreement between the parties. The issue arises in the context of a dispute over publication of a historical work produced to memorialize the experiences of those holocaust victims who suffered the horrors of the Riga Ghetto and the surrounding Nazi concentration camps in Latvia.

Plaintiff (Society) is a society composed of the survivors of…