Munro v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““That the defendants got the idea from the plaintiff of having a picture to represent the common hero of all the stories, an apparently old countryman, dressed in an old-fashioned garb and style, and having a shrewd face, is probably true. But the two pictures are dissimilar. The attitude, the general expression, and the general appearance of the two figures are unlike; and not only unlike, but very different. Tbe variations are more than colorable. The defendants’ picture is not an imitation, but their designer took the plaintiff’s idea, and worked it out in a different way. I do not find an infringement, and the bill should be dismissed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. v. Edison Mfg. Co.