A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions in Great Britain and the United States: Embracing Copyright in Works of Literature and Art, and Playright in Dramatic and Musical Compositions

Little, Brown,, 1879 - Copyright - 774 pages

EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATIONS	xxix

TABLE OF CASES	xxxv

152	xlviii

THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LITERARY PROPERTY	1

What effect has publication on the authors rights?	8

How far government may interfere with literary property	16

Judicial history relating to the origin and nature of literary	26

Rights of foreign authors in England	85

Rights of parties after agreement is ended	368

Author may not reproduce work after sale of copyright	374

Title of magazine partnership property	380

For biography	390

General principles relating to piracy	399

Purpose for which work is taken immaterial	405

What amount is material	413

Descriptive catalogues	421

CHAPTER I	91

COMMONLAW PROPERTY IN UNPUBLISHED WORKS	97

Violation of commonlaw rights	107

Rights of receiver	118

Statutory protection for manuscripts	124

May receiver publish for purposes of vindication?	132

CHAPTER II	140

Compilations	152

Abridgments digests translations and dramatizations	158

Statutes and public documents	164

In England special provision for magazines and periodicals	170

United States	178

Immoral productions	185

False pretences as to authorship	196

Literary merit and quality	208

CHAPTER IV	214

Works first published abroad not entitled to copyright	220

Rights of foreigners in the United States	230

Author and assignee	236

Rights of employer and author employed	243

Employer may secure copyright in United States	255

Extension for author and family	261

Requisites in case of new editions	269

Delivery of copies to Librarian of Congress	275

Publication	281

Is circulation of manuscript copies publication?	289

United Kingdom and British dominions defined	298

Mode of transfer in the United States	318

Sale of stereotype plates	324

Limited assignment	334

Agreement indefinite as to duration and number of copies	345

Agreement indefinite as to duration and number of copies	351

Agreement for use of matter in specified editions	360

Dramatizations	455

When an unlicensed dramatization for performance is pirat	461

CHAPTER X	468

When commonlaw remedies not available	474

unlawful	480

United States Books	486

General provisions	494

Plaintiffs rights not prejudiced by custom	506

How piratical copying is ascertained	512

Form of the injunction	527

Discovery	534

Statutory penalties and forfeitures must be sued for in court	547

CHAPTER XIII	553

Unlicensed performance of play got by memory held law	560

Refutation of the theory that the right to use a play may	566

Commonlaw rights in United States not prejudiced by public	573

General principles governing property in unpublished plays	576

Judicial interpretation of dramatic composition	591

Test of originality in dramatization	597

Duration of playright in printed and manuscript composi	601

United States	612

Transfer of playright United States	621

What is an unlawful performance	627

Offender liable to penalties under English statute when material	633

Substantial identity test of piracy	634

590	723

149	726

Publication complained of need not serve as substitute	728

485	733

Sculpture	740

ABRIDGMENTS TRANSLATIONS AND DRAMATIZATIONS	753

Engravings and prints	760

CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO PIRACY

Title	A Treatise on the Law of Property in Intellectual Productions in Great Britain and the United States: Embracing Copyright in Works of Literature and Art, and Playright in Dramatic and Musical Compositions
Author	Eaton Sylvester Drone
Publisher	Little, Brown,, 1879
Length	774 pages

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