Wofsy

De Fontbrune v. Wofsy

Good Law
United States District Court, Northern District of CaliforniaSeptember 12, 20195:13-cv-05957California11,962 words

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trial_court Opinion

1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 SAN JOSE DIVISION 8 Vincent Sicre de Fontbrune; Loan Sicre de 9 Fontbrune; Adel Sicre de Fontbrune; Anais Case No. 5:13-cv-05957-EJD Sicre de Fontbrune, in their capacity as the 10 personal representatives of the Estate of ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S Yves Sicre de Fontbrune, MOTION FOR SUMMARY 11 JUDGMENT; DENYING IN PART AND Plaintiffs, GRANTING IN PART PLAINTIFFS’ 12 CROSS-MOTION FOR SUMMARY v. JUDGMENT 13 Alan Wofsy, an individual; Alan Wofsy & Re: Dkt. Nos. 61, 63 14 Associates; Does 1 through 100, inclusive, 15 Defendants.

16 This case arises from French litigation over copyrights of photographs of the works of 17 Pablo Picasso. Yves Sicre de Fontbrune first sued Alan Wofsy and Alan Wofsy & Associates 18 (“Defendants”) in France in the late 1990s for publishing volumes of a book, The Picasso Project, 19 that reproduced copyright-protected photographs of Picasso’s works. In 2001, de…

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