Legal Opinion

Huie v. National Broadcasting Company

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided March 25, 1960PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DIMOCK, District Judge.

Plaintiff moves for a preliminary injunction against the presentation the day after tomorrow night of a television show entitled “The American”. Plaintiff claims that that presentation would constitute an infringement of his copyright on a story entitled “The Hero of Iwo Jima” published by him in a volume entitled “Wolf Whistle” in 1959.

Each of these productions has for its central character Ira Hamilton Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the marines photographed by the press photographer Joe Rosenthal in his celebrated picture of the raising of the flag on Mt.…

2Cases cited1 opinion

Davies v. BowesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1913

3Cited by10 opinions

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Arica Institute, Inc. v. Helen Palmer and Harper & Row Publishers, IncorporatedCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1992
Walker v. Time Life Films, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1985
National Business Lists, Inc. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1982

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