Bentley v. Tibbals
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the South- -. ern District of New York. This cause comes here on appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, entered on November 4, 1914, granting an injunction restraining the defendant from printing, publishing, and vending books or cyphers like or substantially like the book and cyphers copyrighted by plaintiff and entitled “Bentley’s Telegraph Cyphers,” and…
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the South- -. ern District of New York. This cause comes here on appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, entered on November 4, 1914, granting an injunction restraining the defendant from printing, publishing, and vending books or cyphers like or substantially like the book and cyphers copyrighted by plaintiff and entitled “Bentley’s Telegraph Cyphers,” and awarding plaintiff profits and damages.
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The bill of complaint is filed by an alien and subject of the king of Great Britain. The complainant resides and has, his principal place of business in London, England. The defendant is a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, state of New York, and does business under the name of the American Code Company.
Complainant alleges that he secured in 1906 a copyright under the laws of the United' States for a book entitled “Bentley’s Telegraph Cyphers,” and.that he is the sole and exclusive owner of the copyright in that work. He states that the…
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