Mail & Express Co. v. Life Pub. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action by the Eife Publishing Company against the Mail & Express Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
NOYES, Circuit Judge.
The first contention of the defendant seems to be that the new copyright statute affords protection to proprietors of periodicals only in respect of such component parts thereof as were copyrightable by such proprietors. Stated more particularly, *900the claim seems, to be that when a periodical contains articles or pictures made by persons who have not transferred their rights to the publisher'the copyright of the periodical does not cover them.'
W,e have no reason to question the correctness of the defendant’s contention. It is sufficient to say that the trial court ruled in…
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