Legal Opinion
Whitehead v. Paramount Pictures Corp.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 30, 1999No. Civ.A. 96-2436(PLF)PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff David L. Whitehead alleges that the film Bad Company, the film Mission Impossible and the novelization of the film Mission: Impossible all infringe on the copyright of his book Brains, Sex, & Racism in the C.I.A. and the Escape. He has sued a number of individual and corporate defendants allegedly involved with writing, filming, producing or distributing Bad Company and Mission: Impossible, and he seeks to recover damages pursuant to the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq., and various common law tort theories.
The corporate defendants have…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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