Legal Opinion
Crane v. POETIC PRODUCTS LTD.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 23, 2008No. 07 Civ. 7063(BSJ)(FM)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
FRANK MAAS, United States Magistrate Judge.
I. Introduction
In this action, plaintiff Roger R. Crane, Jr. (“Crane”), a New York attorney, seeks a declaratory judgment that his copyrighted play, The Last Confession, does not infringe In God’s Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I {“In God’s Name”), a book for which defendant Poetic Products Limited (“PPL”) holds copyrights in the United States and the United Kingdom. PPL, in turn, has asserted counterclaims against Crane for copyright infringement and unfair competition. On November 13, 2007, Crane filed a…
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