Legal Opinion
Ilyin v. Avon Publications, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 24, 1956PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS F. MURPHY, District Judge.
This is an action for copyright infringement and a third-party action for indemnification by the defendant publisher against the persons who allegedly gave it the right to publish the article in question — an English translation of Jean Cocteau’s one-act play entitled, “The Human Voice.” The facts are as follows:
On February 21, 1930, Librairie Stock Delamain & Boutelleau published, in France, Cocteau’s play “La Voix Humaine.” The following month it applied for and received a United States copyright (Class D pub. No.’5308) on this work. In November of the same…
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