...is required. COPYRIGHT, or, as it was formerly termed, copy, has been defined by Lord Mansfield, " to signify an incorporeal right to the sole printing...of somewhat intellectual, communicated by letters." By this " somewhat intellectual" is to be understood something proceeding from the mind of the person...

...is required. COPYRIGHT, or, as it was formerly termed, copy, has been defined iy Lvrd Mansfield, " to signify an incorporeal right to the sole printing and publishing of sornewh.it intellectual, communicated by letters." By this " somewhat intellectual " is to be understood...

...brought this suit to recover damages. Lord Mansfield said: " I use the word COPY in the technical sense, to signify an incorporeal right to the sole printing...of somewhat intellectual, communicated by letters." " No disposition, no transfer of paper upon which the composition is written, marked, or pressed (though...

...by Lord Mansfield, in the case of Millar v. Taylor,1 to have been used for ages in a technical sense to signify " an incorporeal right to the sole printing and publishing of something intellectual communicated by letters." This incorporeal right of property the author has...

...in the common law. "I use the word 'copy,'" said Lord Mansfield,in Millar v. Taylor, 4 Burr. 2396, " in the technical sense in which that name or term...publishing of somewhat intellectual, communicated by persons — neither those to whom they are addressed, nor other persons — have any right or authority...

...family settlements for the provisions of wives and children."2 In the same case, Lord Mansfield said, " I use the word ' copy,' in the technical sense in...of somewhat intellectual communicated by letters." 3 For a century and a half before the reign of Anne, an extensive traffic was carried on in copyrights...

...Millar v. Taylor (Burr. 2303, 239IÍ), speaking of what is now called copyright, d"fiiied copy to be " an incorporeal right to the sole printing and publishing...of somewhat intellectual communicated by letters; " and observed that this was the technical sense in which the term had Uen used for ages. He also ruled...

...question, with respect to this right of literary property, is commonly said to be, whether an author has an incorporeal right to the sole printing and publishing...of somewhat intellectual, communicated by letters I1 But this state of the question is really defective, and does not take so comprehensive a view of...

...association." This furnishes a clear and useful amplification of Lord Mansfield's definition of copyright as "an incorporeal right to the sole printing and publishing...of somewhat intellectual communicated by letters." Mr. Short's definition was equally terse and complete : " Every new and innocent product of mental...

...kind of paper. COPYRIGHT, or, as it was formerly termed. Copy, has been defined by Lord Mansfield " to signify an incorporeal right to the sole printing...of somewhat intellectual, communicated by letters." By this '•somewhat intellectual" is to be understood something proceeding from the mind of the person...