Legal Opinion
Randolph v. Dimension Films
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided February 17, 2009No. Civil Action H-08-1836PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge.
In this action brought under the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq., plaintiff Tina M. Randolph, the author of a book published by her “dba,” Rhapsody Publishing, alleges that the defendants infringed on her copyright. The book is Mystic Deja: Maze of Existence, the first of an anticipated twelve-volume science-fiction series. Randolph published it in December 2002. In this suit, she alleges that the defendants’ motion picture, The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D, infringed on her copyrighted book.…
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