O'Neill v. General Film Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, General Film Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 26th day of April, 1915, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plaintiff, claiming to own the literary rights as well as the performing rights in a dramatization of Alexander Dumas’ novel “ The Count of Monte Cristo,” by Charles Fechter, brought this suit in equity to enjoin the defendant from producing or exhibiting, or distributing for production and exhibition on the stage or in any theatre or place of amusement, any motion picture films containing in whole or in part any of the scenes, incidents, plot or story of said novel as so dramatized, or any simulated or colorable imitation or adaptation thereof.
Dumas’ novel was published in…
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