PALMER ET AL., TRUSTEES,

v.

HOFFMAN

Citator

Cited By

• O'Donnell v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., 318 U.S. 36 (U.S. 1943)
  …venth Circuit modified the judgment, 127 F. 2d 901, by allowing an additional award for maintenance and cure, but held that no recovery could be had under the Jones Act for injury to a seaman not occurring on navigable waters. We granted certiorari, 317 U. S. 611, the question being one of importance in the application of the Jones Act. The Jones Act, so far as presently relevant, provides: “Any seaman who shall suffer personal injury in the course of his employment may, at his election, maintain an action…
• Fred Fisher Music Co. v. M. Witmark & Sons, 318 U.S. 643 (U.S. 1943)
  …newal, made by an author in advance of the twenty-eighth year of the original term of copyright, is valid and enforceable.” Because of the obvious importance of this question of the proper construction of the Copyright Act, we brought the case here. 317 U. S. 611. Plainly, there is only one question before us — does the Copyright Act nullify an agreement by an author, made during the original copyright term, to assign his renewal? The explicit words of the statute give the author an unqualified right to ren…