USA: Effie Film, LLC v. Murphy, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Nos. 14-3367-cv, 16 October 2015
The assignee of the rights to a screenplay by actress and author Emma Thompson about the life of historical figure Euphemia Gray (Effie Film, LLC) should not have been granted an award of nearly $500,000 in attorney fees and costs that it incurred in successfully seeking a declaratory judgment that its screenplay did not infringe…