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What Are We To Do With Deposit Copies?, Sadie Zurfluh
What Are We To Do With Deposit Copies?, Sadie Zurfluh
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
One of the problems courts are faced with today is determining what happens with unpublished works registered under the 1909 Act: can only the sheet music filed with the deposit copy come into evidence when comparing two works as substantially similar? In 2015, the district court in Williams v. Gaye addressed the issue; however, the Ninth Circuit declined to decide the issue on appeal.8 Later in 2018, in Skidmore v. Zeppelin (“Skidmore”), the Ninth Circuit concluded that when dealing with unpublished works under the 1909 Act, the deposit copy defines the scope of the copyright. Part I of this comment …
Copyright, Competition, And The First English-Language Translations Of Les Misérables (1862), Michael H. Hoffheimer
Copyright, Competition, And The First English-Language Translations Of Les Misérables (1862), Michael H. Hoffheimer
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
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