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NORSE v. HENRY HOLT AND CO.

No. 91-16824.

991 F.2d 563 (1993)

Harold NORSE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HENRY HOLT AND CO. and Ted Morgan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided April 16, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome Field, Jerome N. Field, Inc., San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Daniel A. Ross, Sharfman, Shanman, Poret & Siviglia, New York City, for defendants-appellees.

Before: SCHROEDER, NORRIS, and BRUNETTI, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

Appellant Harold Norse is a Beat poet and writer who was a colleague of the writer William Burroughs. Appellee Ted Morgan is the author of a biography, Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs ("Literary Outlaw"), and appellee Henry Holt and Company, is the book's publisher. Norse charges Morgan and Holt with copyright infringement for copying in Literary Outlaw phrases from his copyrighted...

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