Mifflin v. R. H. White Company

Mifflin v. R. H. White Company
Argued April 30-May 1, 1903
Decided June 1, 1903
Full case name Mifflin v. R. H. White Company
Citations 190 U.S. 260 (more)
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
John M. Harlan · David J. Brewer
Henry B. Brown · Edward D. White
Rufus W. Peckham · Joseph McKenna
Oliver W. Holmes Jr. · William R. Day

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]

The case concerned The Professor at the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., published serially in Atlantic Monthly in 1859.[1]

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. 1 2 "Mifflin v. R. H. White Company, 190 U.S. 260 (1903)". Justia. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  2. ↑ "Mifflin v. Dutton, 190 U.S. 265 (1903)". Justia. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  3. ↑ Hamlin, Arthur Sears (1904). Copyright Cases. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 84–86.
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