Wofsy

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 8 Vincent Sicre de Fontbrune; Loan Sicre de Fontbrune; Adel Sicre de Fontbrune; Anais Case No. 5:13-cv-05957-EJD Sicre de Fontbrune, in their capacity as the personal representatives of the Estate of ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S Yves Sicre de Fontbrune, MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; DENYING IN PART AND Plaintiffs, GRANTING IN PART PLAINTIFFS’ CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY v. JUDGMENT 13 Alan Wofsy, an individual; Alan Wofsy & Re: Dkt. Nos. 61, 63 Associates; Does 1 through 100, inclusive, Defendants.

This case arises from French litigation over copyrights of photographs of the works of Pablo Picasso. Yves Sicre de Fontbrune first sued Alan Wofsy and Alan Wofsy & Associates (“Defendants”) in France in the late 1990s for publishing volumes of a book, The Picasso Project, that reproduced copyright-protected photographs of Picasso’s works. In 2001, de…