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DAVIS v. UNITED ARTISTS, INC.

No. 81 Civil 2170.

547 F.Supp. 722 (1982)

George DAVIS, Plaintiff, v. UNITED ARTISTS, INC., Jerome Hellman Productions, Inc., Jane Fonda, Bruce Gilbert, Nancy Dowd, Waldo Salt, Robert C. Jones, National Broadcasting Company, Inc., Home Box Office, Inc., Cinema I, Joe Doe 1-100 and John Doe 1-100, Defendants.

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

September 22, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jimmie L. Engram, Faviola A. Felix, New York City, for plaintiff.

Coudert Brothers, New York City, for defendants; Carleton G. Eldridge, Jr., Eugene Girden, Harriet S. Sugar, New York City, of counsel.

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

During the 1970's, both the plaintiff and the defendants in this action produced works about the Vietnam War, and both entitled their stories Coming Home. Plaintiff's work is a novel, published in February 1972; defendants' work is a motion picture released in February 1978. Plaintiff charges defendants with copyright infringement in violation of 17 U.S.C., section 501; false description in violation of the...

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