556 HARVARD LAW REVIEW. right which an author, a musical composer, or an artist, has in hts unpublished literary, musical, or artistic creation, and the negative right which is conferred by letters-patent upon an inventor, or by statute upon an author, a musical composer, or an artist, whose literary, musical, or artistic creation has been published, namely, that, while the former will be recognized and protected throughout the civilized world, the latter can have no existence, except within the jurisdiction of the sovereign by whom the letters-patent were issued, or the statute was made; and a consequence is that the publication of a literary or musical creation, designed for represen- tation on the stage, is more likely to be a source of pecuniary loss than of pecuniary profit to its author or composer. C. C. Langdell.
