This is a brief excerpt from the document you requested from IFAR’s Art Law & Cultural Property Database.
Case Summary
Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Industries
Steinberg v. Columbia Pictures Indus., 663 F. Supp. 706 (S.D.N.Y. 1987).
Précis
A portion of the poster for defendant Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.’s 1984 movie “Moscow on the Hudson” resembled plaintiff Saul Steinberg’s drawing for the March 29, 1976 cover of The New Yorker. Steinberg sued Columbia Pictures and the movie’s other promoters, distributors, and advertisers for
copyright infringement
The act of violating any of a copyright owner's exclusive rights granted by law. In the United States, a copyright owner has several exclusive rights in copyrighted works, including the rights (a) to reproduce the work, (b) to prepare derivative works based on the work, (c) to distribute copies of the work, (d) for certain kinds of works, to perform the work publicly, (e) for certain kinds of works, to display the work publicly, (f) for sound recordings, to perform the work publicly, and (g) to import into the United States copies acquired elsewhere (Black’s Law Dictionary (8th ed. 2004)).
copyright infringement. In deciding the case, the Court looked at . . . ..
Associated Legal Decision(s)
Associated Statutes and/or Legislation
Click here to subscribe to IFAR's Art Law & Cultural Property Database to access this and other documents about U.S. and international legislation and case law concerning the acquisition, authenticity, export, ownership, and copyright of art objects.
