(1947) Tags: Fox
Burns v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
This suit is on plaintiff’s claim of infringement of copyright by defendant. Plaintiff is the author of a novel, Angel On Horseback, which he wrote between Christmas 1944 and the summer of 1945. He published it on November 7, 1945. He filed with the copyright office an affidavit of publication on January 29, 1946 and copies of his book on February 13, 1946.
Defendant thereafter published a motion picture, Miracle on 34th Street. Plaintiff claims that this publication infringes his copyright.