Can Prof. Anderson by Copyrighted?--Editor of Richmond Dispatch:
--Can a man's own name be made a matter of copyright?
Can he enter it "according to act of Congress in the
Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
United States?" I want to know.
Two attorneys to whom I have applied have each a different opinion.
Surely some of the many thousand readers of the
Dispatch can enlighten me. The cause of my application is that I am Agent here for
Prof. Anderson, and find that in the country round about, some five or six unprincipled scoundrels have taken his name, and are giving execrable performances greatly to his detriment.
The real
Professor, with whom I have traveled the world round--
Europe,
Asia,
Africa, America,
Australia and Oceanics — is at present in
Alexandria, and no where else.
He is to be at Mechanics' Hall.
Richmond, next Monday.
Yet I hear of pseudo
Prof. Anderson's both South and West of me. Now, the schoolmen of the days of Abelaid contended that it is a property of angels to be in two places at one time.
Angels may be — I don't know; but
Prof. Anderson is no angel.
He is the same gentleman who astonished
Richmond eight years since, and who I pledge myself, means to astonish it again; but for eight years he has not been anywhere in the neighborhood, and he is an impostor who takes his name.
My letter may be of service to caution the public, and may enable me to discover if I can copyright a wizard as I can a book, both being bound in cloth gilt-edged having many
pages and dependent on printer's ink.
E. P. Hingston Agent for
Prof. Anderson. Powhatan Hotel,
Richmond, Va., Dec. 12th.
