Sebring Pottery Co. v. Steubenville Pottery Co.

JONES, District Judge.

The suit is one for copyright infringement. Merle H. Walker and the defendant Donald G. Agnew, while employees of the plaintiff company, conceived and produced the customer’s premium record card which was copyrighted by Charles Leigh Sebring, as trustee for the plaintiff assignee.

While the card may not be a work of pretentious merit, yet it evidences some original intellectual effort as to conception, composition, and arrangement. The copyright office thought so, and the certificate of registration was issued.

There has been such generous use of identical expressions and…