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BURNETT v. WARNER BROS. PICTURES, INC.

113 A.D.2d 710 (1985)

Murray Burnett et al., Appellants-Respondents, v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., et al., Respondents-Appellants, et al., Defendant

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

September 5, 1985

In 1941 plaintiffs wrote a play entitled "Everyone Comes to Rick's." On January 12, 1942, plaintiffs assigned their rights to the unproduced play to defendant Warner Brothers, Inc., in exchange for $20,000. The agreement entitled "Assignment of All Rights" states that plaintiffs

"give, grant, bargain, sell, assign, transfer and set over all now or hereafter existing rights of every kind and character whatsoever pertaining...

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