Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony
| Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony | |
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| Submitted December 13, 1883 Decided March 17, 1884 | |
| Full case name | Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company v. Napoleon Sarony |
| Citations | 111 U.S. 53 (more) 4 S. Ct. 279; 28 L. Ed. 349; 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1757 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Judgment for plaintiff, 17 F. 591 (S.D.N.Y. 1883); affirmed, C.C.S.D.N.Y. |
| Holding | |
| It is within the constitutional power of Congress to extend copyright protection to photographs that are a representation of an author's original intellectual conceptions. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York affirmed. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinion | |
| Majority | Miller, joined by unanimous |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. art. I; U.S. Rev. Stat. §§ 4952, 4965 (Copyright Act of 1870) | |
Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U.S. 53 (1884), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the power of Congress to extend copyright protection to photography.