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· 7/20/1951

Alfred Bell & Co. Ltd. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc.

Citations

  • 191 F.2d 99
  • 90 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 153
  • 1951 U.S. App. LEXIS 4179
  • 1951 Trade Cas. (CCH) 62,893

How courts have described this case

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  • price-fixing agreement “explicitly confined to Great Britain and Ireland” not violative of United States antitrust laws
  • “[T]he doctrine of anticipation . . . does not apply to copyrights. . . . The ‘author’ is entitled to a copyright if he independently contrived a work completely identical with what went before.”
  • mezzotints of old masters’ paintings entitled to copyright

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Judges: Chase, Clark, Frank

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