Alfred Decker Cohn Co. v. Etchison Hat Co.

Citations

• 225 F. 135
• 1915 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1231

Syllabus

<p>Oor,:im'..i'Tn C•>•>!.—Tnwíingkment—Acts Constituting.</p> <p>finder Copyright Act Mare?»' 4, 1909, c. 320, § 20, 35 Stat 1080 (Oorap. St, 1913, § 9341), providing that where a copyright proprietor has sought to comply with the act with, respect to notice, the omission by accident or mistake of the notice from a particular copy or copies shall not invalidate tíie copyright, or prevent a recovery of damages against a person who after actual notice of the copyright infringes it, but shall prevent roeovery of damages against any innocent infringer misled by the omission of the notice, a copyright proprietor, whose notice of copyright is defective because of the characters or symbols therein being so small that an average observer may discover nothing therefrom, may not recover-damages against one innocently infringing the copyright, and on ascertaining the facts promptly discontinuing the use thereof; but he will be enjoined from future use, if injunction is desired by the proprietor, for the defects in the notice do not invalidate the copyright.</p> <p>«s=>Por other eases see same topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes'</p> <p>[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Copyrights, Cent. Dig. §§ 29, 30; Dec. Dig. <@=»29J</p> <p>^s^For other cases see same topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes</p>