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Recent Decisions, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

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The Limits Of State Jurisdiction In Affording Common Law Protection To Clothing Designs, Leonard S. Elman

Vanderbilt Law Review

The recent case of Dior v. Milton' indicates that the "misappropriation" doctrine of the law of unfair competition will be applied to impose liability upon unlicensed users of original clothing designs. The purpose of this article is to outline briefly the statutory protection presently available for such designs, and to discuss certain problems raised by the Dior v. Milton decision.

The Constitution, in article I, section 8, provides that Congress shall have power to enact legislation "to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their …

A Manual Of Copyright Practice, Allen D. Choka

West Virginia Law Review

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Copyright Protection To Aliens And Stateless Persons, Edward T, Breathitt Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

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Coming Into Equity With Clean Hands, Zechariah Chafee, Jr.

Michigan Law Review

The preceding article proposed to examine eighteen differing groups of cases which are commonly supposed to present the clean hands doctrine as a maxim of equity, and then proceeded to consider eight such groups. Ten groups still require attention. The first five of those already considered fell within the exclusive jurisdiction of equity, and the next three within the concurrent jurisdiction, which is continued for a considerable part of the present article. After discussing suits for specific performance of unfair contracts and of illegal contracts, I dealt with miscellaneous tort suits by a person charged with crime. We now turn …

Copyrights--Duty Of One Owner To Account To Co-Owner For Profits From Use And Licensing Of Copyright.

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Copyright Of Advertising, Mary Garner Borden

Kentucky Law Journal

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Some Legal Aspects Of The Pan-American Copyright Convention Of 1946, Bryce Rea, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Copyright In A World At War, Helen C. Stephenson

Kentucky Law Journal

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Copyright: Assignment Of Author's Renewal Interest

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Copyright

Copyright Of Statute Compilations, Robert M. Spragens

Kentucky Law Journal

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Compilations As Subjects For Copyright, Mary Barton Jackson

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Law On Abridgment Of Copyrighted Literary Material, Harry W. Roberts Jr.

Kentucky Law Journal

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Use Of The Doctrine Of Unfair Competition To Supplement Copyright In The Protection Of Literary And Musical Property, Paul Leo Oberst

Kentucky Law Journal

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Copyright Law--Musical Style Piracy--Possible Methods Of Legal Protection For The Musical Stylist, John L. Young

Kentucky Law Journal

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Trade Restraints- Equitable Servitude On Chattels - Radio Broadcast Of Electrical Transcriptions, Roy L. Steinheimer

Michigan Law Review

A popular orchestra leader made certain electrical transcriptions (not records) of unique interpretations of different musical numbers which were distributed, for a consideration, for radio broadcast on the Ford Motor Program. A notice appears on the transcription that it is to be used only by a distributee station and then only on the Ford Program. Defendant, who is not a distributee, broadcast one of these transcriptions without the plaintiff's consent. Plaintiff sued to enjoin rendition of the transcriptions. Held, that the injunction should be granted because there was a proprietary interest in the plaintiff's rendition of these musical numbers, …

Copyright Protection Of Advertising, Joseph S. Freeland

Kentucky Law Journal

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The Scope Of Copyright Protection, James E. Fahey

Kentucky Law Journal

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Taxation-Federal Instrumentalities-Exemption From State Tax

Michigan Law Review

Appellant, a New York corporation which is engaged in Georgia in licensing copyrighted motion pictures, brought suit to restrain a Georgia tax upon the gross receipts of royalties. Appellant urged the invalidity of the tax upon the ground that copyrights are instrumentalities of the United States. The supreme court of Georgia ruled that the suit should be dismissed. On appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States it was held, in Fox Film Corporation v. Doyal, that a state tax on royalties derived from copyrights is valid.

Some Historical Matter Concerning Literary Property, Edward S. Rogers

Michigan Law Review

The notion of property in published literary works was of gradual development. One may search in vain through classical literature and Roman law to find anything in the nature of copyright. Hearty condemnation of plagiarism is to be found. Stealing another man's labor and passing it off as one's own was a literary crime, but neither that nor open piracy seems to have been a matter of which the law took cognizance. Before the invention of printing, making manuscript copies of a book was such a laborious and time-consuming task that an ancient author must have felt sufficiently repaid if …

Sarony V. Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co., Henry W. Rogers

Articles

Commenting in the Federal Reporter on this Opinion, Professor Rogers considers at length this case bearing on definitions of copyright and artistic properties. "This was an action at law for the violation of the plaintiff's copyright of a photograph of Oscar Wilde, which the defendant had copied by the process known as chromo-lithography.... A jury was waived, and the case was argued upon questions of law only, which appear in the opinion."

"The contention of the defendant, briefly stated, is this: That there was no constitutional warrant for this act; that a photographer is not an author, and a photograph …