Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony

Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony
Supreme Court of the United States
Submitted December 13, 1883 Decided March 17, 1884
Full case name	Burrow-Giles Lithographic Company v. Napoleon Sarony
Citations	111 U.S. 53 (more) 4 S. Ct. 279; 28 L. Ed. 349; 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1757
Case history
Prior	Judgment for plaintiff, 17 F. 591 (S.D.N.Y. 1883); affirmed, C.C.S.D.N.Y.
Holding
It is within the constitutional power of Congress to extend copyright protection to photographs that are a representation of an author's original intellectual conceptions. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York affirmed.
Court membership
Chief Justice Morrison Waite Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan William B. Woods · Stanley Matthews Horace Gray · Samuel Blatchford
Case opinion
Majority	Miller, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const. art. I; U.S. Rev. Stat. §§ 4952, 4965 (Copyright Act of 1870)

Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony, 111 U.S. 53 (1884), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States that upheld the power of Congress to extend copyright protection to photography.^[1]