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HUIE v. NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY

184 F.Supp. 198 (1960)

William Bradford HUIE, Plaintiff, v. NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY, Inc., Purex Corporation Ltd., Meree Miller, Robert Alan Aurthur, John Frankenheimer and Alex March, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

March 25, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Satterlee, Warfield & Stephens, New York City, for plaintiff.

Coudert Brothers, New York City, for defendants.

DIMOCK, District Judge.

Plaintiff moves for a preliminary injunction against the presentation the day after tomorrow night of a television show entitled "The American". Plaintiff claims that that presentation would constitute an infringement of his copyright on a story entitled "The Hero of Iwo Jima" published by him in a volume entitled "Wolf Whistle" in 1959.

Each of these productions has for its central character Ira Hamilton Hayes, a Pima Indian who was...

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