National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that abandonment requires “some overt act which manifests [the copyright holder’s] purpose to surrender his rights in the ‘work,’ and to allow the public to copy it”
• “we say that the text [of the agreement] itself comports only with the conclusion that ‘McClure’ was to be the ‘proprietor’ ”
• “it is only on the assumption that ‘McClure’ was the ‘proprietor’ of the ‘work’ — i.e., of the ‘strips’ prepared by the ‘Artists’ under the contract — ■ that any valid copyrights could be secured by publication in the ‘syndicated’ newspapers”
• sufficient to name related company as proprietor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).