STEIN v. MAZER

No. 6572.

204 F.2d 472 (1953)

STEIN et al. v. MAZER et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Frost, Chicago, Ill. (Joseph T. Brennan, 2d, Baltimore, Md., and Will Freeman, Chicago, Ill., on brief), for appellants.

Max R. Kraus, Chicago, Ill., for appellees.

Warren E. Burger, Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul A. Sweeney and Benjamin Forman, Attorneys, Department of Justice, and George D. Cary, United States Copyright Office, Washington, D. C., on brief for the Register of Copyrights as amicus curiœ.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.


DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs instituted a civil action against defendants in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, seeking an injunction and damages for the alleged infringement of six copyrights for small three-dimensional statuettes of male and female dancing figures made of semi-vitreous china. Registration of these statuettes was duly granted to the plaintiffs by the Copyright Office. The District Court dismissed the complaint of plaintiffs...

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