Haas v. Leo Feist, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Equity. Suit by Harry Haas against Leo Feist, Incorporated, and another. Decree for an injunction and an accounting by defendants. This is a suit in equity to enjoin the infringement of a copyrighted song entitled, “You Will Never Know How Much I Really Oared.”
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In Equity. Suit by Harry Haas against Leo Feist, Incorporated, and another. Decree for an injunction and an accounting by defendants. This is a suit in equity to enjoin the infringement of a copyrighted song entitled, “You Will Never Know How Much I Really Oared.” In the spring of 1914 the plaintiff, who was at that time in the employ of one Adolph Deutsch, composed the melody and chorus of the song in question, which was reduced to notation by one Roueh, and for which one Oahalin wrote some words. A copyright to the song was taken in the name of the Haas & Oahalin Music Company, a trade-name…
1Opinion
On Rehearing.
The defendant now moves for a rehearing upon new proof, which I have heard, and upon a point of law raised in the answer, but not previously urged in the argument. As to the new proof it has not changed my conviction; the witness Gilhooly appeared much more convincing to me than Smith, and the result was only to confirm my belief that Smith got the song at about the time Cahalin originally says he gave it to him.
[6] The point of law is this: Deutsch, the copyright proprietor, was a maker of raincoats, and employed Haas and Cahalin on a salary to write songs and words for him,…
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