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DOUBLEDAY & CO., INC. v. CURTIS

No. 82 Civ. 7888 (RWS).

599 F.Supp. 779 (1984)

DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., Plaintiff, v. Tony CURTIS, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

December 17, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Satterlee & Stephens, New York City, for plaintiff; James F. Rittinger, New York City, of counsel.

Richard W. Meirowitz, New York City, for defendant.

OPINION

SWEET, District Judge.

This is a dispute about creativity and the respective responsibilities of an author and his publisher. It takes the form of a diversity action by plaintiff Doubleday & Company, Inc. ("Doubleday"), a well known New York publishing house, which seeks to recover a $50,000 advance paid to defendant Tony Curtis ("Curtis"), a well known and well regarded actor. The advance was to be credited against the sales by Doubleday of...

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