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No Copyright in Growing Beards Court DecidesNEW YORK, May 24 Bevond peradventure, to takewords right out| of Federal Judge John M Woolseys mouth, there can be no copyright on the growing of beards.From time .mmemonal,*’ said'the court, beards have been m the public domain Any man, if so minded, may —without being subject to challenge, legal or equitable— not only grow such beard as he can, but may purposely imitate another’s facial ahrub-bery, even to the extent of following such topiary modification thereof as may have caught his fancy.Judge wooisey was ruling *n the case of the House of David of Benton Harbor. Mich .— where beard growing us an art ~ag Lo. f ’Ttiy ofSfv te propr.e-tor of a bearded baseball team. The House of David sought— and the court granted—in junction to stop Murphy from continuing this practice, the House of David claiming pr.or rights to the use of beard* on ballplayersThe court found nothing wrong 111 the fact that the Murphy boys wore beards, but held that he use of uniforms bearing the .egcnd •House of David* was indication beyond peradven-ture that the defendant (Mur* phv* is actuated by a desire no: only unfairly to avail nm-aelf of the quaint appearance of 'he plaintiffs 'earn but :o masquerade as the plaintiff * team and thus unfairly compete with it.*'
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The Berkshire Evening Eagle
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, US
Thu, May 24, 1934
Page 22
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