Falk v. Gast Lith. & Eng. Co.

The statute provides (section 4962, Rev. St.) that no person shall maintain an action for the infringement of his copyright, unless he shall give notice thereof (in the case of a photograph) by inscribing upon some portion of the face or front of the several copies published, or on the face of the substance upon which they are mounted, the -words, “Entered according to act of congress,” etc. Compliance with this requirement must he pleaded and proved as a prerequisite to the maintenance of complainant’s action; but it would lay an unreasonable burden upon him to require separate, distinct,…