Harper v. Donohue
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
In Equity. Suit for infringement of copyright. On motion for preliminary inj unction.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, District Judge.
Katherine Cecil Thurston, the author, is a subject of King Edward VII, and as such has the same privilege of copyright in the United States as if a citizen of this country. This is secured to her by International Copyright Act March 3, 1891, c. 565, 26 Stat. 1106 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3406]', the Berne Convention, and the proclamation of. the President of July 1, 1891, provided for by such act. 27 Stat. 981. As author of the work called “The Masquerader, or John Chilcote, M. P.” the literary property vested in her consisted, so far as here material, of the…
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