G. & C. Merriam Co. v. United Dictionary Co.

Citations

• 140 F. 768
• 1905 U.S. App. LEXIS 3959

Syllabus

<p>Copyrights — Infringement—Persons Entitled to Sue.</p> <p>One who publishes a copyrighted book in the United States, containing due notice of copyright, but who subsequently takes the plates from which it was printed, and which were made from type set in this country, to England, and there publishes from said plates another edition of the book, intentionally omitting therefrom the notice of American copyright, cannot maintain a suit for infringement of copyright against another who imports a copy of the English book and reproduces it in the United States; the foreign copy, lawfully imported, being in legal effect a publication made in this country without the copyright notice, 'within the meaning of Rev. St. § 4962 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3411], which makes such publication a bar to a suit for infringement</p>