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NEW ERA PUBLICATIONS INTERN. v. HENRY HOLT AND CO.

No. 88 Civ. 3126 (PNL).

695 F.Supp. 1493 (1988)

NEW ERA PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL, APS, A corporation of Denmark, Plaintiff, v. HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY, INC., A New York Corporation, Defendant.

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

As Amended August 16, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Lee Hertzberg, New York City, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, Washington, D.C. (Michael C. Elmer, of counsel), Lubell and Lubell, New York City (Jonathan Lubell, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke, New York City (Robert M. Callagy, Mark A. Fowler, of counsel), for defendant.

OPINION AND ORDER

LEVAL, District Judge.

This is an action to enjoin the publication of a critical biography on grounds that the biographer has infringed the copyrights of the subject. The subject of the biography is the deceased L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology. Plaintiff, New Era Publications International, ApS, a Danish corporation, is related to the Church of Scientology and was founded to hold and exploit Hubbard's copyrights. The...

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