Legal Opinion
Dieckhaus v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
District Court, E.D. Missouri
Decided March 4, 1944No. 904PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
54 F.Supp. 425 (1944)
DIECKHAUS
v.
TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION.
No. 904.
District Court, E. D. Missouri, E. D.
March 4, 1944.
J. Porter Henry and Robert D. Evans, both of St. Louis, Mo., for plaintiff.
Boyle & Priest, of St. Louis, Mo., and Edwin P. Kilroe, of New York City, for defendant.
MOORE, District Judge.
Plaintiff bases her cause of action on an alleged pirating of portions of her unpublished novel entitled "Love Girl" by defendant in production of the movie "Alexander's Ragtime Band". No statutory copyright was issued on plaintiff's novel, but she claims to have preserved her…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Menendez v. HoltSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1936
- White-Smith Music Publishing Co. v. Apollo Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Fred Fisher, Inc. v. DillinghamDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1924
- Dymow v. BoltonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. v. DieckhausCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1946
- Continental Casualty Company v. BeardsleyDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1957
- Fader v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film CorporationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1959
- Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. v. DieckhausCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1946
- Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. v. DieckhausCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1946