Lectures

Compare Drama. Where persons are admitted, as pupils or otherwise, to hear public lectures, it is upon the implied confidence and contract that they will not use any means to injure or take away the exclusive right of the lecturer in his lectures, whether that be to publication in print or to oral delivery. A professor in a university, orally delivering lectures of his own composition, does not so communicate them to the public as to entitle a hearer, without permission, to republish them.