> >> In the 1950s, the author of a medical textbook sued for copyright
> >> infringement when one sentence from the book was used in an
> >> advertisement.
>IANAL, and I'd hope for comment from the lawyers here--but I don't *think*
>that would have been an application of *copyright* law.
It was definitely copyright, but now that I found the reference, actually it was three sentences in 1938:
Henry Holt & Co., Inc. v. Liggett Meyers Tobacco Co., 23 F.Supp. 302 (E.D.Pa. 1938). Use of three sentences from a book held infringing.
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