Legal Opinion
Rosemont Enterprises, Inc. v. Random House, Inc. And John Keats
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 17, 1966No. 473, Docket 30672PublishedCited by 178 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
On May 26, 1966, plaintiff-appellee, Rosemont Enterprises, Inc. (Rosemont) commenced this action in the district court alleging that copyrights which it owned on a series of articles entitled “The Howard Hughes Story” which appeared in Look Magazine in early 1954 were infringed by a book entitled “Howard Hughes — a Biography by John Keats” published on May 23, 1966 by defendant-appellant, Random House, Inc. In June, Rosemont made a motion for a preliminary injunction restraining the sale, publication, distribution and advertisement of the biography pending final…
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