John Hampton and Dorothy Hampton v. Paramount Pictures Corporation, and Eastman Kodak Company

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• finding no overt act where there was 12 no consent to public use and no permission given to sell the copyrighted works
• finding abandonment where copyright owner’s actions demonstrated the intent to “surrender the[ir] rights and allow the public to copy”

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