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GAL v. VIACOM INTERN., INC.

No. 05 Civ.0263 (CSH).

403 F.Supp.2d 294 (2005)

Dalia GAL, f/k/a Dalia Gal-Ghelber, Plaintiff, v. VIACOM INTERNATIONAL, INC., Simon & Schuster, Inc., The Thomson Corporation, Thomson Gale, Inc., Thorndike Press, Simon & Schuster Audio, Inc., a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., Pocket Books, Inc., a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., and Mary Higgins Clark, Defendants.

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

December 5, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard F. Horowitz, Heller, Horowitz & Feit, P.C., New York, NY, for Dalia Gal.

Marcia Beth Paul, David M. Ascher, Nyack, NY, for Viacom Intern., Inc., Simon & Schuster, Inc., Thomson Corp., Thomas Gale, Inc., Thorndike Press, Simon & Schuster Audio, Inc., Pocket Books, Inc., Div. of Simon & Schuster, Inc., Mary Higgins Clark.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAIGHT, Senior District Judge.

This is an action for copyright infringement under the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq. Plaintiff Dalia Gal ("Gal" or "Plaintiff") alleges that, through the publication of a novel credited to Mary Higgins Clark, the above-named defendants ("Defendants") infringed Gal's copyright in a screenplay she had authored.

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