Pushman v. New York Graphic Society, Inc.

Plaintiff, who is an artist, brought this suit in 1940 for an injunction to enjoin the defendants from making reproductions of a painting executed by plaintiff and which he had/sold outright to the University of Illinois in 1930, for $3,600. This painting was not copyrighted under the copyright laws of the United States.. Special Term denied the injunction and dismissed the complaint on the merits, ¿writing an opinion and decision in which it is said that the only question in the case is as to whether an artist after giving an absolute and unconditional bill of sale of his painting, still…