Richardson v. Miller

SHEPLEY, Circuit Judge.

There cannot be a reasonable doubt, upon the evidence in this record, that the assignor to the complainant had perfected and copyrighted his designs before the defendants had made much progress in their work of getting up their playing-cards.

The contention on the part of the defendants is, that their prints are unlike the cards copyrighted by Richardson, and do not infringe the copyright. It is true that there are certain marked differences between the prints of the copyrighted court-cards of Richardson and the court-cards of the defendants. There is much less space in…