THE RELATION BETWEEN FEDERAL AND STATE PROTECTION OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC PROPERTY.

Studies the relationship between federal and state protection of literary and artistic property in the United States. Interaction of the copyright clause, the Copyright Act and the supremacy clause; Origin and terminus of the protection of unpublished works; Judicial failure in establishing guides for the determination of the extent of federal protection and pre-emption; Conclusion of the author that the interaction of the copyright clause, the Copyright Act and the supremacy clause produces workable boundaries of permissible protection.