proprietor
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 207 U.S. 284 - American Tobacco Company v. Emil Werckmeister · 1907Most cited · 333 citing opinions
the person who has a copyrightable thing made for him under such circumstances as to become the proprietor; as, for instance, one who causes a digest to be compiled or a picture to be painted.
How often courts cite the case defining “proprietor”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “proprietor” — 333 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.