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WHITEHEAD v. PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORP.

No. Civ.A. 96-2436(PLF).

53 F.Supp.2d 38 (1999)

David L. WHITEHEAD, Plaintiff, v. PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 30, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Joseph Henry, Falls Church, VA, for plaintiff.

Gerson Avery Zweifach, Paul Benedict Gaffney, Williams & Connolly, Washington, DC, for Paramount Pictures Corp., Pocket Books and Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Mark Leddy, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Washington, DC, for Disney Corp., Touchstone Pictures, Buena Vista Video Pictures, Distribution and Columbia House Video Club.

Jeffrey William Kilduff, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Washington, DC, for Time Warner Entertainment Company, LP, Warner Books, Warner Brothers and Home Box OFfice.

OPINION

PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff David L. Whitehead alleges that the film BAD COMPANY, the film MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and the novelization of the film MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE all infringe on the copyright of his book Brains, Sex, & Racism in the C.I.A. and the Escape. He has sued a number of individual and corporate defendants allegedly involved with writing, filming, producing or distributing BAD COMPANY and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE...

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