Dark Passage (1946) is a novel by David Goodis which was the basis for the 1947 film noir Dark Passage. The year 1946 in literature involved some significant events and new books David Goodis ( March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967) was an American Noir fiction writer Dark Passage ( 1947) is a Warner Bros Film noir directed by Delmer Daves and starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Plot introduction
Convicted murder Vincent Parry escapes from prison and is picked up and sheltered by Irene Jansen, an artist with an interest in his case. Helped by a friendly cabbie, Parry gets a new face from a plastic surgeon, thereby enabling him to dodge the authorities and find his wife's real murderer. Plastic surgery is a medical specialty interested in the correction of form and function He has difficulty staying hidden at Irene's. This is because Madge Rapf, the spiteful woman whose testimony sent him up to prison, keeps stopping by. This page is about spite in the context of Fair division, a branch of theoretical Economics.
Court Proceedings
The copyright status of Dark Passage was the subject of a dispute between Goodis' estate and United Artists Television. The Goodis estate claimed that United Artists' series The Fugitive infringed their copyright in the book. The Fugitive is an American Television series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC United Artists claimed that the work had fallen into the public domain under the terms of the Copyright Act of 1909 because it had been originally published as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post and Goodis never obtained a separate copyright on the work as a whole in his own name. The Copyright Act of 1909 was a landmark statute in United States statutory Copyright law In Goodis v. United Artists Television, Inc. , 425 F. 2d 397, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit limited the so-called "Doctrine of Indivisibility," explaining that it was a judicial doctrine related only to standing, and should not operate to completely deprive a claimant of his copyright. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. The Doctrine of Indivisibility was a Legal doctrine in United States copyright law, which held that a Copyright was a single indivisible right that its
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