Bachman v. Belasco
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the District Court, Southern District of New York, dismissing the bill in a suit to enjoin alleged infringement of copyright.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
[1] Th'e complainant Bachman wrote and duly copyrighted a dramatic composition entitled ‘Etelle.” The keynote of the play was dual personality, a phenomenon which had been exploited by Dr. Morton Prince in a book detailing his scientific study of the case of a lady, whom he calls Miss Beauchamp (not the real name of his patient), and by John Corbin in a story published in the Ladies Home Journal, entitled “How One Girl Lived Four Lives.” Miss Bachman sent her play to defendant; it remained in the possession of his reader for six weeks, and was then returned with a…
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