Mifflin v. R. H. White Company
| Mifflin v. R. H. White Company | |
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| Argued April 30 – May 1, 1903 Decided June 1, 1903 | |
| Full case name | Mifflin v. R. H. White Company |
| Citations | 190 U.S. 260 (more) 23 S. Ct. 769; 47 L. Ed. 1040 |
| Holding | |
| The authorized appearance of a work in a magazine without a copyright notice specifically dedicated to that work transfers that work into the public domain. | |
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| Majority | Brown, joined by unanimous |
Mifflin v. R. H. White Company, 190 U.S. 260 (1903), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the authorized appearance of a work in a magazine without a copyright notice specifically dedicated to that work transfers that work into the public domain.[1] Its opinion was also applied to the next case, Mifflin v. Dutton.[2]
The case concerned The Professor at the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., published serially in Atlantic Monthly in 1859.[1]
Holmes v. Hurst was an earlier Supreme Court case dealing with similar circumstances for Holmes's earlier work, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table.[3]
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- Text of Mifflin v. R. H. White Company, 190 U.S. 260 (1903) is available from: CourtListener Justia Library of Congress
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