New York, June 11.
The United States representative of the National Socialist Central Publishing Company Franz Ober Nacht. of Germany, obtained from the Federal Appellate Court yesterday an injunction against the New York publishing firm of Stackpole Sons to restrain the publication by this firm of an unauthorized version of Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" or by a certain newspaper concern, The Appellate Court emphasized in its comment supporting the decision that Adolf Hitler and his publishers had a right to copyright protection, the Stackpole Publishing Company having made use of the fact that at the time the book first appeared Adolf Hitler was without nationality, in order to avoid payment of royalties and in this way to advertise the unauthorized version.
Furthermore, the Appellate Court pointed out that any other decision would have deprived all emigres in the United States without nationality of all copyright protection were the arguments advanced by the Stackpole Publishing Company to be recognized as valid—Trans-Ocean.
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