Legal Opinion
Wells v. Universal Pictures Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 16, 1948No. 171, Docket 20867PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
The present action is based upon the plaintiff’s common law rights of literary property in a comedy sketch entitled “Flugel Street,” of which he was the author. The complaint charges the four corporate defendants and the individual defendants Abbott and Costello with infringing his rights by using the sketch without his consent in a motion picture entitled “This Is The Life.” This picture was produced by Universal Pictures Company, Inc., distributed by its two subsidiaries, Universal Film Exchanges, Inc., and Big “U” Film Exchange, Inc., and exhibited by Loew’s, Inc.…
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