Wheaton v. Peters
Case Date: 11/25/2024
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Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. (Pet. 8) 591 (1834), was the first United States Supreme Court ruling on copyright. The case upheld the power of Congress to make a grant of copyright protection subject to conditions and rejected the doctrine of a common law copyright. This was also Chief Justice John Marshall's last major case.
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