CENTURY PRODUCTIONS, INC., ET AL.

v.

PATTERSON

Citator

Cited By

• Rohauer v. Killiam Shows, Inc., 551 F.2d 484 (2d Cir. 1977)
  …intiffs, see Kalem Company v. Harper Brothers, 222 U.S. 55, 61, 32 S.Ct. 20, 56 L.Ed. 92 (1911) (Holmes, J), and an unauthorized “copying” of the underlying story, see Patterson v. Century Productions, Inc., 93 F. 2d 489 (2 Cir. 1937), cert. denied, 303 U.S. 655, 58 S.Ct. 759, 82 L.Ed. 1114 (1938). On á parity of reasoning creation of any new prints of the film presumably amounts to manufacturing a new “transcription or record” of the underlying novel, see Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, 106…
• Hirshon v. United Artists Corp., 243 F.2d 640 (D.C. Cir. 1957)
  …t term should begin to run, and not a general definition of what constituted publication.” Cardinal Film Corp. v. Beck, D.C.S.D.N.Y.1918, 248 F. 368; see also Patterson v. Century Productions, 2 Cir., 1937, 93 F. 2d 489, 492, certiorari denied 1938, 303 U.S. 655, 58 S.Ct. 759, 82 L.Ed. 1114. What constitutes publication, so as to validate or invalidate a copyright, must be determined, therefore, in each case by considering its facts in the light of the policy of the Copyright Act.8 A finding that a work ha…
• C. Brian Burke, M.D. v. Nat'l Broad. Co., Inc., 598 F.2d 688 (1st Cir. 1979)
  …this principle, a film is not “published” if it merely is shown but the general public is not permitted to own — as opposed to borrow — tangible copies of. it. E.g., Patterson v. Century Productions, Inc., 93 F. 2d 489 (2d Cir. 1937), cert. denied, 303 U.S. 655, 58 S.Ct. 759, 82 L.Ed. 1114 (1938); DeMille Co. v. Casey, 121 Misc. 78, 201 N.Y.S. 20 (Sup.Ct.1923); see M. Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright § 4.08[A], at 4-41-44 (1978) [hereafter Nimmer on Copyright]. Publication may be found if the circumstances sugg…