The right of literary property as recognized and sanctioned by positive law. A right granted by statute to the author or originator of certain liter-ary or artistic productions, whereby he ls invested, for a limited period, with the sole and exclusive privllege of multiplying copies of the same and publishing aud sell-lng them. In re Rider, 16 R. I. 271, 15 Atl. 72; Mott Iron works v. Clow, 83 Fed. 316, 27 C. C. A. 250; Palmer v. De.wltt, 47
