American Visuals Corporation v. Frederick A. Holland and Sam Schwartz

239 F.2d 740

AMERICAN VISUALS CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

Frederick A. HOLLAND and Sam Schwartz, Defendants-Appellees.

No. 37.

Docket 23979.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Argued October 4, 1956.

Decided November 20, 1956.

Appellant — plaintiff below — appeals from an order granting summary judgment, in favor of defendants and dismissing the complaint. The first two counts of the complaint rest on 17 U.S.C., and allege that by publication of a book entitled "It Can't Happen to Us," which was largely copied from plaintiff's book "Killer in the Streets," defendants have…