Litigants: | Buck v. Jewell-LaSalle Realty Co. |
Arguedatea: | March 3 |
Arguedateb: | 4 |
Argueyear: | 1931 |
Decidedate: | April 13 |
Decideyear: | 1931 |
Fullname: | Buck v. Jewell-LaSalle Realty Co. |
Usvol: | 283 |
Uspage: | 191 |
Parallelcitations: | 51 S. Ct. 410; 75 L. Ed. 971 |
Holding: | A hotel operator which provided headphones connected to a centrally controlled radio receiver was guilty of copyright infringement, because "reception of a radio broadcast and its translation into audible sound is not a mere audition of the original program. It is essentially a reproduction." |
Majority: | Brandeis |
Joinmajority: | a unanimous court |
Overruled: | Twentieth Century Music Corp. v. Aiken |
Buck v. Jewell-LaSalle Realty Co., 283 U.S. 191 (1931), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held a hotel operator which provided headphones connected to a centrally controlled radio receiver was guilty of copyright infringement, because "reception of a radio broadcast and its translation into audible sound is not a mere audition of the original program. It is essentially a reproduction."