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Mauro Malang Santos vs. Mccullough Printing Company 120 Phil. 1112

MAURO MALANG SANTOS, plaintiff-appellant, vs. McCULLOUGH PRINTING COMPANY, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-19439 | 1964-10-31

D E C I S I O N 


PAREDES, J.: 

This is an action for damages based on the provisions of Articles 721 and 722 of the Civil Code of the Philippines, allegedly on the unauthorized use, adoption and appropriation by the defendant company of plaintiff's intellectual creation or artistic design for a Christmas card. The design depicts "a Philippine rural Christmas time scene consisting of a woman and a child in nipa hut adorned with a star shaped lantern and a man astride a carabao beside a tree, underneath which appears the plaintiff's pen name, Malang." 

The complaint alleges that plaintiff Mauro Malang Santos, designed for former...