The Briefing Podcast: Ninth Circuit Agrees with Woz - No Promise to Pay, No Desny Claim

The 1950 case Desny v. Wilder set the ground rules for an idea theft/implied contract case in California.In Desny, the plaintiff Victor Desny wrote a script depicting the real-life story of Floyd Collins, a boy who made headlines after he was trapped in a cave 80 feet underground.In an effort to market his script, Desny called Billy Wilder, a writer, producer and director at Paramount Pictures.

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