G. Ricordi & Co. v. Mason
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Bill by G. Ricordi & Co. against Henry E. Mason and others. On motion for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge.
The complainant, as the owner of copyrights in the operas “Germania” and “Iris,” seeks to restrain the defendants from publishing a book called “Opera Stories” which, it asserts, is an infringement of its copyrights.
“Germania” covers 46 printed pages and is divided into three acts.. The “story” of this opera as printed by the defendants covers a little-more than half a page, each act being described in a paragraph containing about 100 words. The entire situation will be made plain by reproducing the defendants’ statement of the first act:
“Act I — Prologue.
“Scene, a mill…
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