BALTIMORE & OHIO SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY
v.
SHERMAN D. HILL, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS J. HILL, DECEASED

U.S. | 1926-12-13
No. 467
273 U.S. 738 Supreme Court of the United States (1926) Positive Treatment
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    …U. S. 82, 86, 19 S. Ct. 606, 43 L. Ed. 904; Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp., 45 F.(2d) 119 (C. C. A. 2d); Guthrie v. Curlett, 36 F.(2d) 694, (C. C. A. 2d); Edwards & Deutsch Lithog. Co. v. Boorman, 15 F.(2d) 35 (C. C. A. 7th), certiorari denied 273 U. S. 738, 47 S. Ct. 247, 71 L. Ed. 867. “One of the entities or things which every, atith'or tries to insert in his copyrighted, work is, a-set of ideas; yet ideas as such are not protected. * * * The copyright law protects the means of expressing an idea;…
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