Louis Dejonge & Co. v. Breuker & Kessler Co.

Citations

• 191 F. 35
• 111 C.C.A. 567
• 1911 U.S. App. LEXIS 4933

Syllabus

<p>1. Copyrights (§ 26*) — Persons Entitled to Protection — Necessity of Strict Compliance with Statute.</p> <p>Protection under the copyright .law is granted only to those who perform the conditions essential to a perfect copyright title.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Copyrights, Dec. Dig. § 26.*</p> <p>Persons entitled to copyrights, see note to Saake v. Lederer, 98 C. C. A. 573.]</p> <p>2. Copyrights (§ 29*) — -Infringement —Persons Entitled to Maintain Suit.</p> <p>Under Rev. St. § 4952 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3406), which gives to the author or proprietor of a painting, upon compliance with the provisions of the copyright law, the sole liberty of copying and vending the same, and Act .Tune 18, 1874, c. 301, § 1, 18 Stat. 78 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3411), which provides that no person shall maintain an action for infringement of his copyright of a painting, unless he shall inscribe a notice of the same “on some visible portion thereof or of the substance in which the same shall be mounted,” construed together, a single notice on a sheet containing a dozen copies of a copyrighted painting is not such a compliance with the statute as will sustain a suit for infringement.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Copyrights, Cent. Dig. §§ 29, 30; Dec. Dig. | 29.*]</p>