SHAPIRO BERNSTEIN & CO. v. JERRY VOGEL MUSIC CO.


115 F.Supp. 754 (1953)

SHAPIRO BERNSTEIN & CO., Inc. v. JERRY VOGEL MUSIC CO., Inc.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

On Cross-Motions September 24, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spring & Eastman, New York City (Lee V. Eastman, Alfred Beekman and E. Gabriel Perle, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Edwin McMahon Singer, New York City (Edwin McMahon Singer and Leo E. Falkin, New York City, of counsel), for defendant.


LEIBELL, District Judge.

This is an action for copyright infringement. It involves the renewal copyrights in the instrumental music of "12th Street Rag" composed by Euday L. Bowman in 1914 and the renewal copyright of a song bearing that title, copyrighted by a music publisher, J. W. Jenkins Music Co. in September 1919.

Bowman assigned his right and title to the copyrights of the instrumental music to the Jenkins Co. in July 1916. In the Fall of 1918 the Jenkins...

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