Baker v. Taylor
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In equity. This was an application [by Isaac D. Baker and Charles Scribner against John S. Taylor] for a provisional injunction to restrain the defendant from infringing an alleged copy-right of the plaintiffs to a book entitled “The Sacred Mountains, by J. T. Headley, author of Napoleon and his Marshals, etc.: Illustrated.”
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In equity. This was an application [by Isaac D. Baker and Charles Scribner against John S. Taylor] for a provisional injunction to restrain the defendant from infringing an alleged copy-right of the plaintiffs to a book entitled “The Sacred Mountains, by J. T. Headley, author of Napoleon and his Marshals, etc.: Illustrated.” The bill alleged, that the plaintiffs, being sole owners of the said work, which was composed and written by said Headley, but had not then been published, on the 10th of November, 1846, deposited in the office of the clerk of the district court for the southern district…
1Opinion of the Court
BETTS, District Judge.
The act of congress, entitled “An act to amend the several acts respecting copyrights,” passed February 3d, 1831, (4 Stat. 436,) embodies the provisions of the acts of May 31st, 1790, and of April 29th, 1802, on the subject, and imposes on persons claiming the privilege of a copyright the same duties and liabilities which attended the right under the prior statutes. It is quite useless to go into the general learning appertaining to the subject, or to state at large the decisions rendered in Great Britain under the English statutes. The supreme court of the United…
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