ROSEMONT ENTERPRISES, INC. v. RANDOM HOUSE, INC.

No. 66 Civ. 1532.

261 F.Supp. 691 (1966)

ROSEMONT ENTERPRISES, INC., Plaintiff, v. RANDOM HOUSE, INC. and John Keats, Defendants. Howard R. Hughes, Maynard E. Montrose, Chester S. Johnson, Chester C. Davis and Gregson Bautzer, Additional Defendants on Counterclaim.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

December 22, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katz, Moselle & Schier, New York City, for plaintiff; Chester C. Davis, Lola S. Lea, New York City, of counsel.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges, New York City, for defendant Random House, Inc. and co-attorneys for defendant John Keats; Horace S. Manges, Edward C. Wallace, Marshall C. Berger, New York City, of counsel.

Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn & Dilks, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant John Keats; William T. Coleman, Jr., Robert W. Maris, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.


OPINION

WEINFELD, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Rosemont Enterprises, Inc. (Rosemont), commenced this action for copyright infringement against Random House, Inc., the publisher, and John Keats, the author, of a biography of Howard Hughes, hereafter referred to as The Book. The material allegedly infringed by the defendants consisted of articles published in three issues of Look Magazine in 1954, the copyrights to which Rosemont obtained from Cowles Communications...

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