Note 383 — Chapter III · THE OWNER OF THE COPYRIGHT IN BOOKS
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5 & 6 Vict. c. 45, sec. 15; Leyland v. Stewart (1876), 4 Ch. D., 419; Power v. Walker (1814), 3 M. and S., 7; Davidson v. Bohn (1848), 6 C. B., 456; Clementi v. Walker (1824), 2 Bar. and Cres., 861; Jefferys v. Boosey (1854), 4 H. L. C., 815; [See the judgment of Lord St. Leonards at p. 944; but note also that Coleridge, J., at p. 906, expressed his disapproval of the reasoning in Power v. Walker and Davidson v. Bohn]; Kyle v. Jefferys (1859), 3 Macq., 611, 617, 18 D., 906; Cumberland v. Copeland (1862), 1 H. and C., 194; Cocks v. Purday (1848), 5 C. B., 860; see Drone on "Copyright," pp. 304-316, where the soundness of the case law that assignment must be in writing is doubted.