writings of an author

writings of an author
The literary and scientific productions of an author. United States v Chase, 135 US 255, 258, 34 L Ed 117, 119, 10 S Ct 756. Copyrightable material. Drop Dead Co. v S. C. Johnson & Sons, Inc. (CA9 Cal) 326 F2d 87. As used in section 8, of the first article of the Federal Constitution conferring upon Congress the power to secure to authors the exclusive right to their respective "writings," the word means the literary productions of those authors, and Congress has declared these to include all forms of writing, printing, engraving, etching, etc., by which the ideas in the mind of the author are given visible expression. 18 Am J2d Copyr § 35.

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