YARDLEY

v.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO.

Citator

Cited By (16 total)

• Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid, 490 U.S. 730 (U.S. 1989)
  …pyright, along with the work itself, to the hiring party. See, e. g., Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. v. Jerry Vogel Music Co., 221 F. 2d 569, 570, rev’d, 223 F. 2d 252 (CA2 1955); Yardley v. Houghton Mifflin Co., 108 F. 2d 28, 31 (CA2 1939), cert. denied, 309 U. S. 686 (1940).10 In 1961, the Copyright Office’s first legislative proposal retained the distinction between works by employees and works by independent contractors. See Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U. S. Copyright…
• Sol A. Dann v. Studebaker-Packard Corp., 288 F.2d 201 (6th Cir. 1961)
  …Cold Metal Process Co. v. McLouth Steel Corp., 6 Cir., 1942, 126 F. 2d 185, 189; Paine & Williams Co. v. Baldwin Rubber Co., 6 Cir., 1940, 113 F. 2d 840, 844; American Eagle Fire Ins. Co. v. Gayle, 6 Cir., 108 F. 2d 116, 117, certiorari denied 1939, 309 U.S. 686, 60 S.Ct. 809, 84 L.Ed. 1029; Mills Novelty Co. v. Monarch Tool & Mfg. Co., 6 Cir., 49 F. 2d 28, 29, certiorari denied 1931, 284 U.S. 662, 52 S.Ct. 37, 76 L.Ed. 561. . E. g., Graham v. United States, 9 Cir., 1957, 243 F. 2d 919, 923; McLeod v. Citi…
• Picture Music, Inc. v. Bourne, Inc., 457 F.2d 1213 (2d Cir. 1972)
  …ertiser, were done for hire.6 The Court expressly applied the statutory work for hire doctrine to the case of an independent contractor, 369 F. 2d at 568, relying in part on Yardley v. Houghton Mifflin Co., 108 F. 2d 28 (2d Cir. 1939), cert. denied, 309 U.S. 686, 60 S.Ct. 891, 84 L.Ed. 1029 (1940), where it was held that one who commissions an artist to paint a mural owns all rights to its reproduction. See also Dielman v. White, 102 F. 892 (C.C.D.Mass.1900), which reached the same result, although the cour…