Owner of painting fumes over ‘The Bronx is Burning’

Updated Monday, May 5, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AP

Owner of painting fumes over ‘The Bronx is Burning’

NEW YORK -- The owner of Norman Rockwell’s “Bottom of the 6th” — showing three baseball umpires looking skyward as the first raindrops fall — is steaming over the use of the classic illustration in the cable television series “The Bronx is Burning.”

Curtis Publishing Co. Inc. has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan seeking to stop ESPN Inc. from rebroadcasting the series about the 1977 New York Yankees until it withdraws use of the painting.

Curtis sent an e-mail to ESPN lawyers notifying them that ESPN did not have a license to use the painting and was committing willful copyright infringement, the lawsuit said. The lawsuit claims Curtis will suffer damage to its business, including loss of its reputation for exclusive ownership of its copyrighted catalog of illustrations.

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