Hartford Jan 25/83.
Dear Sir—
No, if my ten years of effort have taught me any valuable lesson, it is to consider all time given to trying to get our copyright laws put into proper shape, wasted. From that line of endeavor, I have retired permanently.
But if I can get ‸the protection of‸ the existing trade-mark laws, [ex] authors (& literature of all kinds) will then be sheltered utterly from injury—(foreign books & authors included.) I have won two trade-mark suits & lost a third. I will not believe that the U. S. Supreme Court will decide against me until I [◊f] have tried. If I can get a ‸favorable‸ Supreme Court decision, the thing aimed at in your proposed law is accomplished; & while one can get a ‸one‸ copyright law through Congress he can try ten Supreme Court cases, & give the usual four years to each case.
Very Truly Yours
S L Clemens
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