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WEISSMANN v. FREEMAN

No. 87 Civ. 6069 (MP).

684 F.Supp. 1248 (1988)

Heidi S. WEISSMANN, M.D., Plaintiff, v. Leonard M. FREEMAN, M.D., Defendant.

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

As Amended May 6, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Englehard, P.C., New York City by Judith P. Vladeck, Julian R. Birnbaum, Jill R. Roisen, for plaintiff.

Summit, Rovins & Feldesman, New York City by Guy R. Fairstein, for defendant.

DECISION AND OPINION

MILTON POLLACK, Senior District Judge.

In an uncommon controversy, the issues presented are whether a medical paper represents joint or individual authorship and whether it may ground an infringement claim under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq. The action was tried to the Court at a Bench trial.

The parties are both nuclear medicine physicians. The plaintiff, Heidi S. Weissmann, M.D. ("Weissmann") charges infringement...

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