Copyright Office Revisory Board - Memos & Decisions - 1941

DATE

REMITTER

TITLE

QUESTION

LINK

January 2, 1941

Borg-Warner Corp.

“Borg and Beck Clutch Specs”

Whether Material classifiable as prints or books

PDF

January 3, 1941

Curtis Brown LTD

“Twilight in Delhi”

Sufficiency of address

PDF

January 8, 1941

McLoughlin Bros Inc

“Blacky” and “Brownie”

Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

January 9, 1941

Lester Budlong

“Start o Graph”

Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

January 13, 1941

Edward G. Billings

“Personality Study Online for Clinical Use”

Publication

PDF

January 17, 1941

Boston Music Co & Art Publication Society

“Bach for Early Grades Book 3” and “Hunting Song”

Division of Opinion as to whether one registration is sufficient

PDF

January 17, 1941

Ohio Brass Co

“Condensed Catalog Listing of O-B Valves”

Proper Classification A or KK?

PDF

January 22, 1941

Harper Henry Peace

“Handy Reminder for Grocery Shopping List”

Board Error

PDF

January 24, 1941

Robert O. Rubel Jr.

“Camellias Floral Gems from China”

Classification

PDF

January 27, 1941

Louis Gould

“Of interest…and for Exclusive Benefit of churches, schools and organizations”

Classification

PDF

January 29, 1941

Alfred Keller

“Song No. 1”

Doubtful deposit

PDF

February 3, 1941

Virginia A. Haile

“America Thy Temple”

Has Publication taken place?

PDF

February 5, 1941

Leta Wallace

“The Duplex Slide Rule and Fingering For Major and Minor Scales”

Whether limiting the claim to direction be acceptable

PDF

February 10, 1941

H. Kramer and Co.

“Kramer Alloy News”

Is a house organ a commercial print?

PDF

February 11, 1941

Elizabeth E. Lewis

“Gospel Gemns”

Separate Registrations for six Hymns in one leaflet?

PDF

February 11, 1941

Nipp Jiji Co. LTD

“Japanese Telephone Directory”

Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

February 13, 1941

Bleick Von Bleicken

“Double Your Pleasure”

Is Deposit a published Book?

PDF

February 14, 1941

Remington Rand Inc

“Graph-a-matic Inventory Analysis for Profit Control”

Does material fall under ‘device’?

PDF

February 18, 1941

Arthur Leondar

“Not to be Opened Until After the Ceremony”

Division of Opinion as to Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

February 19, 1941

Ralph Kalish

“The Camellia House the Drake Chicago”

Packet of Matches UPDATE

PDF

February 21, 1941

Earl Wilfred Galbraith

“I Like to Make Music”

Division of Opinion as to Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

February 26, 1941

Powell Thomas

“Powell Thomas, USA”

Is the Copy a technical Drawing?

PDF

February 27, 1941

Mueller and Ruhl

“The Evening Campfire”

Proper Classification KK?

PDF

March 3, 1941

Victor J. Evans and Co.

“Instructions for Playing Games”

Instructions on scoring sheet registrable?

PDF

March 7, 1941

Claude S. Demorest

“Rules for Playing Brig”

Rules Printed on back of board Game?

PDF

March 13, 1941

Moynihan and McKeown

“She Loved a Spy”

Publication.  Syndicate Material

PDF

March 17, 1941

Miller Beaumont

“Shuffle Baseball”

Deck of Pictural Cards registrable?

PDF

March 18, 1941

Ralph Kalish

The Camelia House, The Drake, Chicago

Packets of Matches as prints or label?

PDF

March 18, 1941

Columbia Broadcast System

“Berceuse” and “Village Festival”

Has Public Action Taken Place?

PDF

March 19, 1941

Music Lovers Chest of Records

“Music Lovers Chest of Records”

Registration as a Commercial Print

PDF

March 21, 1941

John K. Masten

“To Trisect Any Angle with Arc of 2” Radius”

Whether work submitted is a device

PDF

March 25, 1941

King Features Syndicate

“Five Dionne Quintuplets Pose”

Dates of publication as given on application

PDF

March 31, 1941

Henry Andrew Gallagher, Jr

“Eastman and Violet”

Is the deposit a unpublished drawing?

PDF

April 1, 1941

Goldsmith Brothers

“Executive Blotter Book

Book of Blank Forms?

PDF

April 3, 1941

Harry Andrew Gallagher

“Eastman and Violet”

Number of Registrations required for unpublished drawing

PDF

April 3, 1941

Norman R. Dutton

“Goldcraft Clothes”

Registration of label woven into clothing

PDF

April 16, 1941

Ramsey Oppenheim

“Western Advertising”

Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

April 23, 1941

Cercle de la Librarie

“L’emouvant journal de MMe de Chlapowska”

Tear sheets as deposits

PDF

May 6, 1941

Gould Green

Mah Jong Sample Card

Registrable as book or commercial print

PDF

May 8, 1941

Walt Disney Productions

Retro Exhibit of Walt Disney Medium

Statement of Authorship

PDF

May 12, 1941

Shartenberg’s Inc

“Budget Coupons spent like Cash”

Is the Deposit KK Material?

PDF

May 20, 1941

Florence Nelson

“Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address – with Shadow Portrait of Lincoln”

Necessity for statement in application

PDF

May 26, 1941

Kirby Block and Company

“Sales Plan”

Advanced data in notice of copyright

PDF

May 29, 1941

National Premium Pay Envelope Corp

“Family Finance finest Loan Service”, “Rodeo-the Gardens” “How to Obtain Bank Loan””

Printing on an Envelope

PDF

June 11, 1941

Fuller Uniform Inc

“Fuller Fine Washable Uniforms”

Whether to apply available fee to work

PDF

June 21, 1941

Johnson, Klien and Smyth

“Great Dane Dog” and “French’s Statue of Lincoln”

Does statue represent an article of utility

PDF

June 27, 1941

Mrs. Ruth Adele Hillard

“Daddy’s Friend”

Public domain poem as a print

PDF

July 1, 1941

Superior Advertising Inc

“Put Your Name in Lights”

Is the Deposit a commercial print?

PDF

July 2, 1941

Robert N. Linsenmeyer

“Aviation Credit Corporation – Insta-Check”

Is the deposit a blank form?

PDF

July 9, 1941

Remington Rand inc

“Remington Educational Keyboard”

Whether drawing of keyboard is copyrightable?

PDF

July 9, 1941

Allen, Lane and Scott, Frick Co

Numerous

Periodicals or Prints and labels

PDF

July 15, 1941

Watson Cole Grindle and Watson

“Directions for Playing Snake Eyes”

Public domain

PDF

July 15, 1941

Ultra Chemical Works Inc

None

Labels deposited may be acceptable as published

PDF

July 17, 1941

Edgar Tobin Aerial Surveys

“Somervell Count Texas. Ownership Match”

Location of Copyright Notice

PDF

July 19, 1941

Hardware Printing Co.

“Handy Household Expense Record”

Book of blank forms

PDF

July 22, 1941

Rippey, John D,, Esq.

“Cross Out”

Publication of book of advertising matter

PDF

August 5, 1941

Music Publishers Holding Corp

Avalon

Shall a corrective entry be made?

PDF

August 5, 1941

Stone Stable Press

“Dot Leetle Fur Cap”

Whether deposit is obscene therefore registration refused?

PDF

August 6, 1941

Fritz B. Burns

“Toluca Wood ‘Homes at Wholesale’”

Is the Deposit KK Material?

PDF

August 11, 1941

Samuel P. Orange

“America in my Heart” – Lyrics and Drawing

Is the drawing registrable as Class G?

PDF

August 21, 1941

Clifford & Lawton, Inc

“Interior Decorator Handbook”

Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

August 22, 1941

Grizzard Advertising

“Hit Hitler’s Puss – It’s Fun”

Is a pictorial rifle target a print?

PDF

August 25, 1941

Albert A. Manke

“Table for circulating gallonage of partly filled Cylindrical tanks”

6 copies constitute a published edition

PDF

August 29, 1941

Stanley and Welsh

“A Conscription Announcement”

Blank forms or books?

PDF

Sept 2, 1941

Ben-Horim, Nahum (Rabbi)

“Star Spangled Banner”

Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

Sept 12, 1941

Doubleday, Doran and Co

“The Garden Wheel” and “Music Lovers Guide”

Is this a device?

PDF

Sept 16, 1941

Matthew Bender & Co.

“Administrative Law News-Letter”

Class A Book or Class B Periodical

PDF

Sept 13, 1941

Texas Legislative Service

Texas Legislative Service

Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

Sept 26, 1941

Morris Tatarsky

“America – faith – Determination – Results”

Does the deposit represent a work of art?

PDF

October 3, 1941

Internal

Limitation of a Application filed in connection with a device

Is the Article a device?

PDF

October 10, 1941

Vorhees Music Partners

Door-Stop Doll Pattern

Is the work acceptable as a copyright deposit

PDF

October 17, 1941

Internal

Mr. Louis Charles Smith no longer Chairman of Revisory Board

Change of Chairman

PDF

October 25, 1941

Curtiss, Cecil Venue

“Santa Claus Has a Candy Cane and Popcorn Balls”

Does Deposit constitute obscene subject matter?

PDF

October 28, 1941

Eichenberg, Robert Louis

“Instant Calculator”

Unpublished drawing or a scientific or technical character

PDF

November 3, 1941

Internal

Procedure for corrective entries

Procedure for corrective entries

PDF

November 4, 1941

Marechal and Noe

“Dick Dunkel’s Basketball Forecast” Weekly

Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

November 10, 1941

Gousha, H. M. Co.

“Braniff Airways Road Map”

Folder as one map?

PDF

November 19, 1941

Hendricks, Lynn W.

“Ain’t Dat Hebbin”

Rejection of the deposit as a book end

PDF

November 24, 1941

King, Willard B.

“The Strangest Humane Story Ever Told”

Class C – as lecture, sermon, or address for oral delivery

PDF

November 25, 1941

Paul A. Schmitt Music Company

“American Flag Parade”

Music and text as separate registrations

PDF

November 28, 1941

Jacobi & Jacobi

“Ask for Florida Orange Juice”

Single sheet ad with no pictorial content as a commercial print

PDF

December 8, 1941

Marquis, A. N. Company

“Questionnaire for Securing Information for Who’s Who in America”

Is the deposit a blank form?

PDF

December 11, 1941

Watson, Cole, Grindle & Watson

“Elsie, Elmer and Beulah”

Gameboard as copyright

PDF

December 12, 1941

Internal

The making of corrective entries in connection with unpublished works

Adequacy of Copyright Notice

PDF

December 16, 1941

Stone Table Press

“Dot Leetle Fur Cap”
 

Poem dialect

PDF

December 23, 1941

Hamilton Manufacturing Co

“20 Punch Board Bond Dispensers”

Print or Gameboard

PDF

December 27, 1941

The House of Art

“Pals” & “We Give Thee Thanks”

Prints as part of property of legal heirs

PDF

December 30, 1941

Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta

“Songs of the Fijis and Their Colleges”

Songbook

PDF

 

 

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