Hills & Co. v. Austrich

Citations

• 120 F. 862
• 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 5311

Syllabus

<p>1. Copyrights — Pictures—' ‘Prints. ”</p> <p>Rev. St. § 4956 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3407], authorizes the copyright of any “book, chart, * * * cut, print, * * * or design, for a work of the fine arts, provided that in the case of a book, photograph, chromo, or lithograph, the two copies of the same required to be delivered or deposited, shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States, or from plates made therefrom, or from negatives or drawings on stone made within the limits of the United States.” Held, that pictures printed in successive colors from metal plates, from which part of the metal has been cut so as to leave portions thereof in relief, were entitled to copyright as “prints,” within the general enumeration of the section, and were not within the proviso because ,not “printed from drawings on stone.”</p> <p>2. Same — Copyright Notice.</p> <p>A copyright notice reciting, “Copyright, 1902, Published by Hills & Co., Ltd., London, England,” was sufficient.</p> <p>¶ 1. Matter subject to copyright, see note to Amberg File & Index Co. v. Shea Smith & Co., 27 C. C. A. 248.</p>