Pearson v. Washingtonian Pub. Co.

MILLER, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia holding that a copyright owned by appellee was wrongfully infringed by appellants and that appellee is entitled to damages for such infringement.

The Washingtonian Publishing Co., Inc., appellee, in December, 1931, published an issue of a monthly magazine of general circulation, called The Washingtonian, claiming copyright thereof by means of the usual notice printed therein as required by the Copyright Act of the United States then in force. However, copies of that…