 | John Clark Ridpath - 1897 - 500 pages
...mind, and which he thus described by words in his book. The C. of a work on mathematical science cannot give to the author an exclusive right to the methods...object would be frustrated if the knowledge could be used without incurring the guilt of piracy of the book. Aud where the art it teaches cannot be used... | |
 | English language - 1897 - 634 pages
...mutheinuticul science cannot give to thu author un exclusive right to the methods of operation which ho propounds, or to the diagrams which he employs to...object of publishing a book on science or the useful arte is to communicate to the world the useful knowledge which it contains. But this object would be... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 952 pages
...on mathematical science cannot give to the author an exclusive right to the methods of opera: tion which he propounds, or to the diagrams which he employs...object would be frustrated if the knowledge could not be used without incurring the guilt of piracy of the book. And where the art it teaches cannot be used... | |
 | Robert Luce - Journalism - 1907 - 318 pages
...distinction may be made as to any other art. But the copyright of a work on mathematical science cannot give to the author an exclusive right to the methods of operation he propounds, or to the diagrams he would employ to explain them. No copyright is valid for a work... | |
 | William Benjamin Hale - Copyright - 1917 - 346 pages
...which he thus described by words in his book. The copyright of a work on mathematical science cannot give to the author an exclusive right to the methods...employs to explain them, so as to prevent an engineer fcom using them whenever occasion requires. The very object of publishing a book on science or the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Government Operations - 1967 - 406 pages
...committee is concerned about today and I quote : The copyright of a work on mathematical science cannot give to the author an exclusive right to the methods...object would be frustrated if the knowledge could not be used without incurring the guilt of piracy of the book. And where the art it teaches cannot be used... | |
 | Jack Belzer, Albert G. Holzman, Allen Kent - Computers - 1977 - 518 pages
...a basic Supreme Court decision which stated: The copyright of a work on mathematical science cannot give to the author an exclusive right to the methods...engineer from using them whenever occasion requires [49]. Another author has pointed out that the value of a patent or copyright is most dubious: ln this... | |
 | Lyman Ray Patterson - Law - 1991 - 297 pages
...that the copyright on the book did not protect the system: "The very object of publishing a book ... is to communicate to the world the useful knowledge...object would be frustrated if the knowledge could not be used without incurring the guilt of piracy of the book."4 The statutory ambiguity was that the statute... | |
 | Lyman Ray Patterson - Law - 1991 - 297 pages
...that the copyright on the book did not protect the system: "The very object of publishing a book ... is to communicate to the world the useful knowledge...object would be frustrated if the knowledge could not be used without incurring the guilt of piracy of the book."4 The statutory ambiguity was that the statute... | |
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The very object of publishing a book on science or the useful arts is to communicate to the world the useful knowledge which it contains. But this object would be frustrated if the knowledge could not be used without incurring the guilt of piracy of the... 
