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NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT
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Where the copyright is secured by publication, the notice of copyright must be inserted on each and every copy of the work in strict compliance with Section eighteen of the Act.37
Section eighteen provides that the notice shall consist either of the word “Copyright” or the abbreviation “Copr. ” accompanied by the name of the copyright proprietor. Where the work is a printed literary, musical, or dramatic work, the notice must also include the year in which copyright was secured by publication.
Since a motion picture is not a printed work in the literal sense that the word printed is used throughout the Act, it would seem that the copyright notice af
37 Banks v. Manchester (1888), 128 U. S. 244; 9 Sup. Ct. 36. “ It has prescribed such a method, and that method is to be followed. No authority exists for obtaining a copyright, beyond the extent to which Congress has authorized it. A copyright cannot be sustained as a right existing at common law; but as it exists in the United States, it depends wholly on the Legislation of Congress. . . .”
Mifflin v. White, Mifflin v. Dutton (1902), 190 U. S. 260265; 23 Sup. Ct. 769-771. The statute with respect to form of copyright notice must be complied with, “in substance at least.” See Thompson v. Hubbard
(1889), 131 U. S. 123; 9 Sup. Ct. 710.
Pierce v. Werckmeister (1896), 72 Fed. (C. C. A.) 54. “To secure a statutory copyright under the laws of the U. S., all the prescribed requisites of the statute must be complied with. Wheaton v. Peters, 8 Pet. 591, 664; Parkinson v. Laselle (1875), 3 Sawy. 330, 332, Fed. Cas. No. 10,762 (C. C.); Boucicaidt v. Hart (1875), 13 Blatchf. 47, 50, Fed. Cas. No. 1,692 (C. C.); Lawrence v. Dana (1869), 4 Cliff. 1, 60, Fed. Cas. No. 8, 136 (C. C.).” See also \ Jackson v. W alkie (1886), 29 Fed. (C. C.) 15; Blume v. Spear (1887), 30 Fed. (C. C.) 629.