ALLIED ARTISTS PICTURES CORP. v. FRIEDMAN

Docket No. 48706.

68 Cal.App.3d 127 (1977)

137 Cal. Rptr. 94

ALLIED ARTISTS PICTURES CORPORATION, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. DAVID FRIEDMAN, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

March 15, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Dern, Mason, Swerdlow & Floum and Richard H. Floum for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Fleishman, Brown, Weston & Rhode and Stanley Fleishman for Defendant and Appellant.


OPINION

COMPTON, J.

In the early 1950s, a book entitled "Histoire d'O" was published in France. Plaintiff Allied Artists Pictures Corp. (Allied) euphemistically describes the book as a "worldwide classic of erotic literature." An English translation of the book has been widely distributed in the United States since 1965 by Grove Press, Inc. (not a party to this action) under the title...

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