Echevarria v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

(after stating the facts as above).

The right of a person in literary work exists at common law, and may' be protected irrespective of copyright. The law of copyright has merely provided an additional method whereby an author by registering his work establishes his right as of the date of registration with the Register of Copyrights, so that he may be in a position to show by the official registration the date of the publication of his original composition. The right which the copyright law protects differs in no respect from any other form of personal property in the protection which the…