GIAIMO v. GUILD


79 A.D.2d 917 (1981)

Robert Giaimo et al., Appellants, v. Literary Guild et al., Respondents Literary Guild et al., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. Christine McCabe et al., Third-Party Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

January 8, 1981


Affirmed, with costs.

A photograph of plaintiffs was used by defendants, allegedly without authorization, to illustrate an advertisement for a book entitled "Crazy Love", published in the Literary Guild's Summer 1977 "Selections for Summer" brochure. The text was libelous in that it described the book as the story of a marriage in which the husband goes mad and as "an autobiographical account of marriage and madness." Plaintiffs claim that the accompanying photograph...

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