U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1938

Martinoff v. Chapin

Martinoff v. Chapin
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · Decided December 13, 1938
100 F.2d 1017; 1938 U.S. App. LEXIS 2777 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Martinoff v. Chapin

Opinion of the Court

PER curiam:.

In a suit for infringement of a registered copyright on charts showing two positions of automobile chassis as a guide for lubrication thereof, it appearing that the source of the arrangement of information thereon was either charts prepared by the plaintiff for the defendants while in their employ or a source common to both, and that adaptation does not rise to the dignity of authorship, the decree below dismissing the proceeding is hereby affirmed.

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