Universal Film Mfg. Co. v. Copperman
District Court, S.D. New York
In Equity. Suit by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company against S. Copperman and others on a copyright of a motion picture photo play. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, District Judge.
Prior to September, 1912, the Nordisk Films Company manufactured or created a motion picture photo play known as “The Great Circus Catastrophe.” The photographs on the film tell a story which was originally shown by human actors who played their parts before a camera, so that the photo play (i. e., the story told by the photographs successively shown to the audience) is a pantomime drama. The Nordisk Company is a Danish corporation; this work was done in Denmark. In that and other countries of Europe it was in 1912 lawful to copyright photo plays, but no copyright was…
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