White-Smith Music Pub. Co. v. Goff

Citations

• 187 F. 247
• 109 C.C.A. 187
• 1911 U.S. App. LEXIS 4505

Syllabus

<p>Copyrights (§ 33*) — Rkxewai.s—(’osstruction of Statute.</p> <p>Copyright Act March 4, 1909. e. 320, § 24, 35 Slat. 1080 (IT. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1900, p. 1297). which provides that “the copyright subsisting in any work at the time when this act goes into effect may, at the expiration of the term provided for under existing law, be renewed and extended by the author of such work if still living, or the widow, widower or children of the author if the author he not living, or if such author, widow, widower or children he not living then by the author’s executors, or in the absence of a will his next of kin, for a further period,” etc., in accordance with a weil-soiiled statutory policy, limits such right of renewal to the persons named therein and does not extend it to the “proprietor” of tin' work, although both under that and the prior statute an original copyright might he secured by such proprietor.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Copyrights, Dec. Dig. § 33.*]</p>