WHITMAN KNAPP, District Judge.
Plaintiff Everett Raymond Kinstler is a portrait artist. In 1977 and 1978 he painted and secured copyright protection for a portrait of John Wayne. He alleges in his complaint that he granted defendants a limited license for a single publication of this portrait on the cover of their magazine, the
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