COPYRIGHT MAPS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 12

COPYRIGHT MAPS

Action for Infringement COMPANY ADMITS CLAIM Breach of copyright formed the. basis of an action brought in the Wellington Supreme Court this week by the Auckland Automobile Association (Professor Cornish and Mr. James), against Palmer and Mahood, Ltd., of Wellington (Mr. Cooke), who filed a confession of judgment. The infringement was in respect to the plaintiff association’s copyright of a motorists’ road map of the North 1sclaimed ah injunction restraining the defendant from infringing its copyright and in particular from printing, publishing or selling motorists maps of the North Island which were copies of plaintiff’s maps, or of material and substantial portions thereof, or of any colourable imitations, llaintiffi, also asked for an account of the number of maps already printed, published, or sold, and of the maps still in defendants possession or in the possession of any person by defendant’s order, and asked for the delivering up of all copies of maps and plates . used -or intended for use in connection with the maps. Costs were claimed- . , , , On the day before the trial the defendant company filed a confession of judgment, and on.the following day legal argument was heard by his Honour Mr. Justice Reed, on the form of judgment to be entered, and in particular as to whether or not the plaintiff association was entitled, in addition to the relief expressly claimed,‘to an account of profit earned by defendants by publishing and selling maps in breach of plaintiff s copyright. _____