Lantern Press, Inc. v. American Publishers Co.

MEMORANDUM and ORDER

DOOLING, District Judge.

Plaintiff a New York corporation with its principal place of business in the Eastern District of New York, publishes, among other things anthologies of stories for younger people, each anthology being devoted to a special type of story such as ghost stories, outer-space stories, detective stories, and so on. Twenty-six of the published books are in issue here. All of them were copyrighted at first publication, and it is not denied that the twenty-six copyrights received in evidence as Exhibit 1 were validly issued copyrights and at the time this…