Buck v. Jewell-LaSalle Realty Co.

Buck v. Jewell-LaSalle Realty Co., 283 U.S. 191 (1931), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held a hotel operator which provided headphones connected to a centrally controlled radio receiver was guilty of copyright infringement, because "reception of a radio broadcast and its translation into audible sound is not a mere audition of the original program. It is essentially a reproduction."

Buck v. Jewell-LaSalle Realty Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 3–4, 1931 Decided April 13, 1931
Full case name	Buck v. Jewell-LaSalle Realty Co.
Citations	283 U.S. 191 (more) 51 S. Ct. 410; 75 L. Ed. 971
Holding
A hotel operator which provided headphones connected to a centrally controlled radio receiver was guilty of copyright infringement, because "reception of a radio broadcast and its translation into audible sound is not a mere audition of the original program. It is essentially a reproduction."
Court membership
Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes Associate Justices Oliver W. Holmes Jr. · Willis Van Devanter James C. McReynolds · Louis Brandeis George Sutherland · Pierce Butler Harlan F. Stone · Owen Roberts
Case opinion
Majority	Brandeis, joined by a unanimous court
Overruled by
Twentieth Century Music Corp. v. Aiken

External links

• Text of Buck v. Jewell-LaSalle Realty Co., 283 U.S. 191 (1931) is available from: Cornell Findlaw Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress