Legal Opinion
Smith v. Little, Brown & Company
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 16, 1967No. 62 Civ. 2462PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McLEAN, District Judge.
This is an action for plagiarism of plaintiff’s uncopyrighted, unpublished manuscript. The plagiarism occurred in a book entitled “Pirate Queen” by Edith Patterson Meyer, which was published by Little, Brown & Co. in 1961.
Mrs. Meyer was never served with process, hence this action was tried against Little, Brown alone in May 1965. Plaintiff has begun a separate action against Mrs. Meyer in Connecticut which is still pending.
I upheld plaintiff’s claim of plagiarism and granted her an injunction, which issued on July 19, 1965, restraining Little, Brown from selling…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Alfred Bell & Co. Ltd. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1951
- Sidney Roginsky v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
- Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1939
- Corrigan v. . Bobbs-Merrill Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1920
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Aitken, Hazen, Hoffman, Miller, P. C. v. Empire Construction Co.District Court, D. Nebraska · 1982
- Morton Globus v. Law Research Service, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1968
- Jarvis v. a & M RECORDSDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1993
- Pirre v. Printing Developments, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1979
- Drake v. Wham-O Manufacturing CompanyDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1974
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