Mifflin v. R. H. White Company

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Mifflin v. R. H. White Company
L. Ed.
1040
Holding
The authorized appearance of a work in a magazine without a copyright notice specifically dedicated to that work transfers that work into the public domain.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Melville Fuller
Associate Justices
Case opinion
MajorityBrown, joined by unanimous

Mifflin v. R. H. White Company, 190 U.S. 260 (1903), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the authorized appearance of a work in a magazine without a copyright notice specifically dedicated to that work transfers that work into the public domain.[1] Its opinion was also applied to the next case, Mifflin v. Dutton.[2]

Background

The case concerned The Professor at the Breakfast-Table by

Houghton Mifflin Co. with payment to Holmes but the R. H. White
store also published the same volume claiming it was in the public domain.

Holmes v. Hurst was an earlier Supreme Court case dealing with similar circumstances for Holmes's earlier work, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Mifflin v. R. H. White Company, 190 U.S. 260 (1903).
  2. ^ Mifflin v. Dutton, 190 U.S. 265 (1903).
  3. ^ Hamlin, Arthur Sears (1904). Copyright Cases. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 84–86.

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