Determining Ownership Rights of Novels Adapted for Theatre
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Playwright Wins 1st Circ IP Appeal Over Novel Adaptations
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ADVERTISEMENT Sideshow Puerto Rico IP Trial Leaves 1st Circ. Puzzled
Law360 (March 8, 2021, 5:50 PM EST) The First Circuit appeared puzzled Monday as it considered the appeal of a publishing company challenging a six-figure jury verdict finding that it infringed the copyrights of a Puerto Rican author and a playwright, saying the late author s heirs are now making a different argument than the one that prevailed at trial.
The descendants of Puerto Rican author Enrique Laguerre as well as a playwright who adapted his novels La Resaca (The Undertow) and La Llamarada (The Blaze), scored a $266,350 judgment in 2019 when a San Juan jury found that publishing company Editorial Cultural Inc. infringed their copyrights by printing and.