Legal Opinion
Kaplan v. Fox Film Corporation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 4, 1937PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATTERSON, District Judge.
The suit is for infringement of statutory copyright. The present motion is by the defendant to dismiss the bill as insufficient on its face.
' The bill alleges that the Theatre Magazine Company formerly published the Theatre Magazine, that it caused the August, 1929, issue of the magazine to be copyrighted by registry and deposit of two copies and by notice of copyright on the issue itself, thereby obtaining copyright as to each part of the contents of the issue; that the Theatre Magazine Company later assigned to the plaintiff its copyright in the cover design' of…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Mifflin v. R. H. White Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Dam v. Kirk La Shelle Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1910
- Mail & Express Co. v. Life Pub. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1912
- New Fiction Pub. Co. v. Star Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1915
- Public Ledger v. New York TimesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1921
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Goodis v. United Artists Television, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1970
- Geisel v. Poynter Products, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1968
- Ilyin v. Avon Publications, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1956
- Self-Realization Fellowship Church v. Ananda Church Of Self-RealizationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- Self-Realization Fellowship Church v. Ananda Church of Self-RealizationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
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