A Treatise on the Law of Copyright in Books, Dramatic and Musical Compositions, Letters and Other Manuscripts, Engravings and Sculpture, as Enacted and Administered in England and America; With Some Notices of the History of Literary Property
A Treatise on the Law of Copyright in Books, Dramatic and Musical Compositions, Letters and Other Manuscripts, Engravings and Sculpture, as Enacted and Administered in England and America; With Some Notices of the History of Literary Property
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...upon the ground that the defendant had been licensed to publish without any limitation of time.2 In this case, the question was left undecided, whether the right to publish did not remain in the plaintiff concurrently with the defendant, or whether the defendant had acquired any right as against the public. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ...upon the ground that the defendant had been licensed to publish without any limitation of time.2 In this case, the question was left undecided, whether the right to publish did not remain in the plaintiff concurrently with the defendant, or whether the defendant had acquired any right as against the public. The defendant declined an offer made by 1 4 Burr. 2215, 2316. Platt -. v. Murray, Jacobs R. 311, 316. Button, 19 Ves. 447. Folsom v. Rundcll v. Murray, Jacobs R. Marsh, 2 Story's R. 109. Rundell 311. the court to try his title to the copyright, and his counsel expressly disclaimed any such title, admitting that there was no legal assignment of it.1 The case therefore proceeds upon the effect of a parol license to publish, and admits that such a license conveys no copyright to the exclusion of the author. Under such circumstances, the rights acquired by a publisher under a parol license depend upon the fact of there being or not being a limitation in point of time, in the license itself. If there is no limitation as to time, the inference is admissible that the author gave a concurrent authority to publish indefinitely. But the inference does not go beyond a concurrent authority. There can be no presumption that the author intended to convey the copyright, for the law requires that to be in writing; and there have been cases where such a presumption has been rejected.2 These cases show that the author retains the copyright, where there has been no assignment in writing, and may defend it by action or injunction against his licensee, where the license was not indefinite in point of time.3 But it seems that a conveyance of the copyright may be proved by the defendant's admissions that he has conveyed it, although he does not refer to the...
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