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LANDON v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

No. 74 Civ. 518.

384 F.Supp. 450 (1974)

Margaret M. LANDON, Plaintiff, v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION and Columbia Broadcasting, Inc., Defendants.

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

November 13, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Layton & Sherman, New York City, Robert Layton, New York City, of counsel, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D. C., Mitchell Rogovin and James A. Dobkin, Washington, D. C., of counsel, Herbert A. Fierst, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Rogers & Wells, New York City, for defendants; Youngman, Hungate & Leopold, Los Angeles, Cal., and William R. Glendon, Stephen R. Froling, New York City, of counsel.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LASKER, District Judge.

In 1944 Margaret Landon entered into an agreement with Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (Fox) to sell, among other things, "motion picture rights" to her book entitled "Anna and the King of Siam". In 1972 Fox produced 13 films which were broadcast on the CBS Television network as a weekly serial entitled "Anna and the King."

This suit presents the question whether the 1944 agreement between Landon...

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