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MARTHA GRAHAM SCHOOL v. MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER CONT.

No. 01 Civ.271 MGC.

374 F.Supp.2d 355 (2005)

THE MARTHA GRAHAM SCHOOL AND DANCE FOUNDATION, INC. and Ronald A. Protas, individually and as Trustee of the Martha Graham Trust Plaintiffs-Counterclaim Defendants, v. MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE, INC. and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Inc. Defendants-Counterclaim Plaintiffs, and Eliot SPITZER, Attorney General of the State of New York, Intervenor-Defendant.

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

June 23, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judd Burstein, P.C. by Judd Burstein, Peter B. Schalk, Alexander M. Levy, New York City, for Plaintiffs-Counterclaim Defendants.

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP by Katherine B. Forrest, Michael Reynolds, Joanne M. Gentile, Robert Simonds, New York City, for Defendants-Counterclaim Plaintiffs.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York by Gerald A. Rosenberg, Barbara L. Quint, New York City, for Intervenor-Defendant.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

CEDARBAUM, District Judge.

The central dispute in the second phase of this lawsuit was ownership of copyrights in 70 dances created by the great dancer, choreographer and teacher, Martha Graham at the time of her death in 1991. In an opinion dated August 23, 2002 following a bench trial, I held that defendants Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. (the...

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