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NATKIN v. WINFREY

No. 99 C 5367.

111 F.Supp.2d 1003 (2000)

Paul NATKIN and Stephen Green, Plaintiffs, v. Oprah WINFREY; Harpo Productions, Inc.; Bob Greene; and Buena Vista Books, Inc., d/b/a Hyperion, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

August 30, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark H. Barinholtz, Chicago, IL, Elliot R. Zinger, Elliot Zinger & Associates, Chicago, IL, Melinda H. Schramm, Chicago, IL, for Paul Natkin, Stephen Green.

David P. Sanders, David Eric Jimenez-Ekman, Darren H. Lubetzky, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Oprah Winfrey, Harpo Productions, Inc., Bob Greene, Disney Book Publishing Co., Luchina Fisher.

David P. Sanders, David Eric Jimenez-Ekman, Darren H. Lubetzky, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, Charles L. Babcock, Jackson and Walker, Dallas, TX, Nancy W. Hamilton, Houston, TX, for Buena Vista Books Inc., The Walt Disney Co.

AMENDED MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CASTILLO, District Judge.

This case is about eleven photographs of Oprah Winfrey taken by Plaintiffs Paul Natkin and Stephen Green on the set of her (rather) well-known television show. The photographs were subsequently published in Winfrey's book Make the Connection, co-authored with Bob Greene and published in 1996 by Buena Vista Books under the name Hyperion, without Natkin and Green's permission. That...

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