First Mercantile Con. Dis. Co. v. Chandler

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• writer of letter retains copyright; but recipient or present possessor has right to destroy letter itself; yet ownership of copyright “involves a right to copy or secure copies[,] [otherwise, the author’s right of publication might be lost”
• a letter writer has a right to receive copies of a letter owned by another in order to give value to the writer’s common-law property interest in the contents of the letter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).