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Drama

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 222 U.S. 55 - Kalem Co. v. Harper Bros. · 1911Most cited · 72 citing opinions

copyright sense

drama may be achieved by action as well as by speech. Action can tell a story, display all the most vivid relations between men, and depict every kind of human emotion, without the aid of a word. It would be impossible to deny the title of drama to pantomime as played by masters of the art.

How often courts cite the case defining “Drama”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Drama” — 197 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.