Littleton v. Oliver Ditson Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
This was a suit by Alfred II. Littleton and others against the Oliver Ditson Company for infringement of copyrights.
1Opinion of the Court
COLT, Circuit Judge.
This case raises a new and important question under the copyright act of March 3, 1891 (2(5 Stat. 1106). The plaintiffs, subjects of Great Britain, and publishers of music, have copyrighted three musical compositions, two of which are in the form of sheet music, and one (a cantata) consists of some 90 pages of music hound together in book form, and with a paper cover. Two of these pieces were printed from electrotype plates, and one from stone by the lithographic process. The inquiry in this case is whether a musical composition is a hook or lithograph within the meaning…
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- Homer v. The CollectorSupreme Court of the United States · 1864
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