Legal Opinion
Effie Film, LLC v. Pomerance
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 18, 2012No. 11 Civ. 7087(JPO)PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
J. PAUL OETKEN, District Judge:
This copyright case, involving a film and three screenplays, presents questions about the protection of historical fiction under American intellectual property law. Eve Pomerance owns a copyright in two screenplays about the dramatic and inter7 twined lives of John Ruskin, John Everett Millais, and Euphemia (“Effie”) Gray — two stars of the Victorian art world and the intriguing woman who was married to each of them. Emma Thompson has written a screenplay about the same historical figures; her screenplay has since been turned into a…
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