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Landon v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

384 F.Supp. 450 (1974)

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Landon (plaintiff) sold Fox (defendant) exclusive motion-picture rights to her book, including the right to make and sell film versions and exclusively broadcast them on television; Fox created and broadcast a direct-to-television series based on the book, and Landon sued for copyright infringement, arguing the contract only covered feature-length films re-shown on TV, not an original television series. Both parties moved for summary judgment.

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Whether courts prefer to interpret a contract in a way that reconciles inconsistencies among the contract's terms.

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