60 F. 338 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania | 1894
From the facts as developed on the hearing of this motion for an interlocutory injunction it appears that the defendant has published, and to a considerable extent has sold, a book purporting to contain certain lectures delivered by the plaintiff, which, in fact, does not present those lectures correctly, but with additions and omissions which essentially alter the productions of the author. This is sought to be justified by the averment that the lectures in question had not been copyrighted, and that their author had dedicated them to the public. The subject of copyright is not directly involved. The complainant does not base his, claim to