Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1883
Abstract
Commenting in the Federal Reporter on this Opinion, Professor Rogers considers at length this case bearing on definitions of copyright and artistic properties. "This was an action at law for the violation of the plaintiff's copyright of a photograph of Oscar Wilde, which the defendant had copied by the process known as chromo-lithography.... A jury was waived, and the case was argued upon questions of law only, which appear in the opinion."
"The contention of the defendant, briefly stated, is this: That there was no constitutional warrant for this act; that a photographer is not an author, and a photograph is not a writing..."
Recommended Citation
Rogers, Henry W. "Protection by Copyright of Photographs." Federal Reporter 17 (1883): 591–603.
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