(Download) "Capitol Records Inc. v. Mercury Records Corp." by United States Court Of Appeals Second Circuit # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Capitol Records Inc. v. Mercury Records Corp.
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals Second Circuit
- Release Date : January 12, 1955
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
Description
Plaintiff obtained below an injunction against manufacture and distribution of phonograph records by defendant. The phonograph records bear recordings of performances by highly gifted artists of certain musical compositions. Since each party by stipulation disclaims ownership in any of the compositions by virtue of copyright, we treat them as in the public domain for the purposes of the case. Plaintiff derives its title, such as it is, from Telefunkenplatte, G.m.b.H., hereinafter called "Telefunken", in Berlin, Germany, which purported to sell to plaintiff matrix records and to grant to plaintiff the right to manufacture and distribute copy records in the United States. Defendant derives its title, such as it is, from an alien property administration in Czechoslovakia which purported to grant to defendants predecessor in title the right to use identical matrix records and the right to manufacture therefrom, and distribute, copy records in the United States. Telefunken was the original owner of these matrix records which came from Czechoslovakia and had furnished them to an organization in that country giving it the right to reproduce and sell copies in a limited territory which did not include the United States.