Legal Opinion
Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 23, 1947PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, District Judge.
The plaintiff, a British print producer and dealer, member of the Fine Arts Trade Guild, copyrighted in the ’ United States. eight mezzotint engravings of old masters produced at its order by three mezzotint engravers.
The defendants, a color lithographer, a dealer in lithographs and the dealer’s president, produced and sold color lithographs of the eight mezzotints.
The first question in the case is whether these mezzotint engravings are copyrightable under the constitutional provision 1 giving the Congress the power to legislate copyright monopolies and under the…
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