Harper & Bros. v. Kalem Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
The late Gen. Lew Wallace wrote a story called “Ben Hur,” the copyright of which belongs to the-complainants Harper & Bros. The complainants Klaw & Erlanger caused the story to be dramatized, and Harper & Bros, duly copyrighted the dramatization and thereupon granted Klaw & Erlanger the sole right of producing the same upon the stage. The defendant the Kalem Company also employed a writer to read the story, without having any knowledge of the copyrighted drama, and to write a description of certain portions of it. It then produced persons and animals, with their…
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