TALKIE AND A PLAY
VERDICT AGAINST PLAINTIFF. NEW YORK, November 12. With citations from Shakespeare, and casual reference to Einstein and Darwin, tlie Appeal Court decided that the talkie “The Cohens and the Kellys,” did not infringe the copyright of “Abie’s Irish Rose.” The. low comedy Jew and Irishman have existed as stage types for decades, loving couples are not rare either, was the effect of the court’s judgment. So ended Anne Nichols’s suit for an accounting of the £600,000 which “The Cohens and the Kelleys” yielded. The court decided that if “Twelfth Night’’ were copyrighted it was quite possible that a second-comer might so* closely imitate Sir Tobv Reich or Malvolio as to infringe it. Rut it would not be enough that for one of his characters he cast a riotous knight to hold wassail to the discomfort of the household, or a vain and foppish steward who became amorous of his mistress. These would be no more than Shakespeare’s ideas in play, as little capable of monopoly as Einstein’s doctrine of relativity or Darwin’s theory of the mutation of species.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1930, Page 8
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