INSTITUTE FOR DEV. OF EARTH AWARENESS v. PETA.

No. 08 Civ. 6195(PKC).

768 F.Supp.2d 672 (2011)

The INSTITUTE FOR the DEVELOMENT OF EARTH AWARNESS, Plaintiff, v. PEOPLE FOR the ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS, Defendant, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Counterclaim-Plaintiff, v. The Institute for the Development of Earth Awareness and Marjorie Spiegel, Counterclaim-Defendants.

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

March 10, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Leichtman , Hillel Ira Parness , Oren Dov Langer , Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff and Counterclaim-Defendants.

Roger L. Zissu , Jason Douglas Jones , Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C., New York, NY, Philip Jay Hirschkop , Hirschkop & Associates, P.C., Alexandria, VA, for Defendant and Counterclaim-Plaintiff.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

P. KEVIN CASTEL, District Judge:

The Institute for the Development of Earth Awareness ("IDEA") has brought this action against the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ("PETA"), alleging that PETA has infringed IDEA'S copyrighted work The Dreaded Comparison, authored by Marjorie Spiegel. The work purports to draw close parallels between forms of human oppression, most notably, slavery in America and the present-day...

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