Universal Film Mfg. Co. v. Copperman
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company against S. Cop-perman, doing business as the Thalia Music Hall, and another. Judgment for defendants (212 Fed. 301), and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
The Nordisk Film Company, a corporation of Denmark, composed an original written scenario of a play called the “Great Circus Catastrophe,” and then composed a photoplay by means of an actual performance of the scenario, recorded by a moving picture camera on a negative photographic film, from which it afterwards took positive films in the customary manner, to be used in performing the play by throwing the pictures upon a screen by means of a moving picture machine. The company copyrighted neither the scenario nor the photoplay in England, as it might have done, but…
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