 | Peter Lehman - 2010 - 223 lapas
...Court, they wisely counseled against just such a danger. Souter wrote, "As Justice Holmes explained, 'it would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained...constitute themselves final judges of the worth of [a work], outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits'" (US Supreme Court 1993, 1173). Yet in... | |
 | Paul Goldstein - 2003 - 262 lapas
...concerned about the power such a litmus test would give to copyright purists. He added a now famous dictum: "It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained...constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits. At the one extreme some... | |
 | Larry P. Gross, John Stuart Katz, Jay Ruby - 2003 - 410 lapas
...distinctions or judgments. As the Supreme Court observed in Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., "It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judge of the worth of pictorial illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits."54... | |
 | Christopher Heath - 2004 - 275 lapas
...famous dicta reminds us why the "aesthetic" criterion was assiduously avoided by the EU legislators: "It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained...constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits. At the one extreme some... | |
 | Henry C. Mitchell - 2005 - 244 lapas
...effect of relieving judges from the burden of value judgments, which Holmes considers a good idea: It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained...constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits. At the one extreme some... | |
 | Hossein Bidgoli - 2006 - 1008 lapas
...which it does not. As the Supreme Court stated in Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. (1903), It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained...constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits. At the one extreme some... | |
 | Richard A. Lanham - 2006 - 327 lapas
...(quoting Justice Holmes's opinion in Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., 188 US 239, 25I-52 [1903] : "It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained...constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations"). 55. See id. at 59-67 (describing the events leading to the many publications... | |
 | D. Vaver - 2006 - 320 lapas
...modest spark of creativity will do. As Justice Holmes put it in a 1903 case concerning circus posters, "[i]t would be a dangerous undertaking for persons...constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations."12 But again, the life of the law is not logic, and the fact that there is... | |
 | 2002 - 510 lapas
...illustration as any other. A rule cannot be laid down that would excommunicate the paintings of Degas. ... It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained...constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits. At the one extreme some... | |
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It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations, outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits. At the one extreme, some works of genius would be... 
