Fort Myer Constr. Co. v. Briscoe

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that works’ worthiness of copyright protection was “sufficiently shown by the [defendant’s] desire to reproduce them without regard to the plaintiffs’ rights”
• “It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits.”
• “But even if [a poster is] drawn from ... life, that fact would not deprive [it] of protection.... Others are free to copy the original. They are not free to copy the copy.”
• “A picture is none the less a picture, and none the less a subject of copyright, that it is used for an advertisement.”
• “It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits.”
• “Personality always contains something unique. It expresses its singularity even in handwriting, and a very modest grade of art has in it something irreducible, which is one man’s alone.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).