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BELL v. COMBINED REGISTRY CO.

No. 75-1753.

536 F.2d 164 (1976)

Robert L. BELL d/b/a Crescendo Publishing Company, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COMBINED REGISTRY COMPANY, an Illinois Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 14, 1976.

Rehearing Denied July 15, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Beckley and Jeffrey Jahns, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Donald J. Veverka, Carmen V. Speranza, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and PELL, Circuit Judges.

FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge.

Appellant Robert L. Bell, as proprietor of the federal copyright in a prose piece entitled Desiderata, brought an action in the district court and alleged copyright infringement by the appellee Combined Registry Company in its unauthorized publication of Desiderata in its August, 1971 issue of Success Unlimited magazine. The district court held that appellee successfully asserted defenses of forfeiture and abandonment of...

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