Litigants: | Dun v. Lumbermen's Credit Ass'n |
Arguedate: | January 31 |
Argueyear: | 1908 |
Decidedate: | February 24 |
Decideyear: | 1908 |
Fullname: | Dun v. Lumbermen's Credit Association |
Usvol: | 209 |
Uspage: | 20 |
Parallelcitations: | 28 S. Ct. 335; 52 L. Ed. 663 |
Holding: | The existence of some copyright-infringing information in a rote reference work does not entitle the original author to seek an injunction against the printing the later article when the later article's contents demonstrate significant original work. |
Majority: | Moody |
Joinmajority: | a unanimous court |
Dun v. Lumbermen's Credit Ass'n, 209 U.S. 20 (1908), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held the existence of some copyright-infringing information in a rote reference work does not entitle the original author to seek an injunction against the printing the later article when the later article's contents demonstrate significant original work.[1]