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BOUVE v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

No. 7741.

122 F.2d 51 (1941)

BOUVE, Register of Copyrights, v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided July 14, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis M. Shea, J. F. Mothershead, H. L. Godfrey, Edward M. Curran, and William S. Tarver, all of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Fulton Brylawski, William B. Wolf, and Simon Fleishman, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Francis Gilbert, of New York, N. Y., amicus curiae, for Standard Music Publishers' Ass'n of the United States, Inc.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and VINSON, Associate Justices.

MILLER, Associate Justice.

Appellee deposited in the Copyright Office two copies of printed matter, bound together in book form and entitled "In Old Chicago." It tendered two dollars in payment of the registration fee. The Register of Copyrights refused registration upon the ground that the material was not a book but, instead, was page proof of twenty contributions to periodicals within the meaning of Section 12 of the Copyright Act;

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