Legal Opinion
Washingtonian Pub. Co. v. Pearson
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 17, 1944No. 8473PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDGERTON, Associate Justice.
This suit for copyright infringement has been here before. Appellant was the owner of a magazine called The Washingtonian. Its issue for December 1931 contained among other things an article by Rixey Smith entitled “The Mills of the Gods.” This issue carried a notice of copyright. With this issue appellant’s magazine ceased publication. Appellees Pearson and Allen afterwards paid Smith the $50 which appellant had agreed but failed to pay him and used the article, with Smith’s consent, in their book More Merry-Go-Round. Appellee Liveright, Inc., published the book…
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