BRODY v. COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION

Civ. No. 2679.

90 F.Supp. 711 (1950)

BRODY v. COLUMBIA PICTURES CORPORATION.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

April 13, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Norman Brody, pro se.

Killion, Connolly & Williams, Bernard J. Killion, James F. Connolly, Boston, Mass., Louis D. Frohlich and Irving Moross, New York City, for defendant.


SWEENEY, Chief Judge.

This is a copyright infringement action involving a three-act play, "Against the Law", which was written between 1939 and 1941, and copyrighted as an unpublished play.

Findings of Fact.

The plaintiff accuses the defendant of pirating "dialogues, situations, and ideas" from his unpublished copyrighted play in thirty-four pictures issued by the defendant. When the plaintiff wrote his play he sent one copy to the Library of Congress...

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