ITALIAN BOOK CO. v. ROSSI


27 F.2d 1014 (1928)

ITALIAN BOOK CO., Inc., v. ROSSI et al.

District Court, S. D. New York.

July 9, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank, Weil & Strouse, of New York City, for plaintiff.

Levisohn, Niner & Levisohn, of New York City, for defendants.


THACHER, District Judge.

When Paolo Citorello, a Sicilian sailor, sang and played his guitar on a long ocean voyage, Sicilian folk songs he had heard and forgotten came back to his memory. He did not know how to read music, and such parts of the words and music as he could remember he sang and played by ear. What he could not remember he improvised. In this way he learned a song which he claimed as his own composition. At the end of the voyage he sang and played it...

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