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...years later, the son and the widow of Bela Lugosi, star of the Dracula films, tried to take this doctrine a step further. They argued that this right was essentially property and therefore should pass on to heirs. In a California suit, they asked the courts to stop Universal Pictures from merchandising 70 Dracula products, ranging from jigsaw puzzles to belt buckles, and sought compensation based on the profits. Citing the First Amendment, Universal replied that the design of merchandise is a form of free speech that should not be restrained by anyone's heirs. Besides, said Universal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Who Can Inherit Fame? | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...them $70,000 and barring Universal from merchandising Lugosi's likeness. The ruling had quick impact. In New York, where the widows of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were suing three companies for exploiting the images of the comedy pair, a federal judge took his cue from the Dracula decision. He barred the firms from merchandising products like comic books, and liquor bottles shaped in the forms of the actors, and ruled that the plaintiffs should receive a sum of money to be fixed after a future hearing. Says Lucille Hardy Price: "I was deprived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Who Can Inherit Fame? | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

Your tale of two troubled banks [May 12] does a great injustice to two remarkable men: Robert Abboud and Harvey Kapnick. To characterize their association as "Frankenstein's monster meeting Dracula" is inaccurate and unjust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1980 | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...profits nosedived $14 million in the first quarter. Late last year Abboud brought into the bank Harvey Kapnick, who had left the $499,000-a-year job as chairman of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm after a policy dispute with partners. It was like Frankenstein's monster meeting Dracula. Kapnick had an almost equally truculent style. The two were soon clashing, particularly about who was running banking operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Tale of Two Troubled Banks | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...conductor's film credits include "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "The Towering Inferno." "The Fury," "Superman," "Jane Eyre," and "Dracula." Williams also has composed many classical works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Pops Gets New Conductor | 1/11/1980 | See Source »

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