Legal Opinion
T. B. Harms Company v. Edward Eliscu and Ross Jungnickel, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 23, 1964No. 93, Docket 28921PublishedCited by 393 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:
A layman would doubtless be surprised to learn that an action wherein the purported sole owner of a copyright alleged that persons claiming partial ownership had recorded their claim in the Copyright Office and had warned his licensees against disregarding their interests was not one “arising under any Act of Congress relating to * * * copyrights” over which 28 U.S.C. § 1338. gives the federal courts exclusive jurisdiction. Yet precedents going back for more than a century teach that lesson and lead us to affirm Judge Weinfeld’s dismissal of the complaint.
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