Drummond v. Altemus
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
This is a bill by Henry Drummond against Henry Altemus to enjoin the publication and sale of a book purporting to contain certain lectures delivered by complainant. Heard on application for a temporary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
From the facts as developed on the hearing of this motion for an interlocutory injunction it appears that the defendant has published, and to a considerable extent has sold, a book purporting to contain certain lectures delivered by the plaintiff, which, in fact, does not present those lectures correctly, but with additions and omissions which essentially alter the productions of the author. This is sought to be justified by the averment that the lectures in question had not been copyrighted, and that their author had dedicated them to the public. The subject of…
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