COPYRIGHT CLAIM
Court Rules No Breach
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. August 6.
Warwick Film Productions, Ltd., makers of the film “The Trials of Oscar Wilde” failed in their breach of copyright action against the makers of the rival film “Oscar Wilde.” The High Court dismissed the action. Mr Justice Plowman, giving a reserved judgment after a three-week hearing, entered judgment with costs for Mr Joseph Eisingen of London, script writer of “Oscar Wilde,” its distributors, Twentieth Century Fox Ltd., and their then managing-dir-ector, Mr Robert Goldstein.
The judge rejected contentions by Warwick Productions that they held, and the defendants violated, exclusive copyright licences relating to two books on Wilde’s trials in 1895: “Oscar Wilde, Three Times Tried” by Christopher Sclater Millard, and “The Trials of Oscar Wilde” by Montgomery Hyde.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31441, 7 August 1967, Page 12
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