Jones Bros. Co. v. Underkoffler

JOHNSON, District Judge.

This is a bill in equity alleging infringement of plaintiff’s copyright.

Plaintiff is a corporation engaged in manufacturing and selling memorials. It employed one Edward R. Peterson, a designer, to create an original design for a memorial. Peterson designed the “Ruther” memorial and plaintiff duly applied for a copyright thereon. A certificate of copyright registration was issued to the plaintiff under class G of the Copyright Act, for a design for a work of art, entitled “Ruther Memorial by Edward G. Peterson, published on December 17, 1932.”

Plaintiff made photographs…