CABLE COPYRIGHT.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13857, 18 April 1917, Page 3

CABLE COPYRIGHT.

ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT, PERPETUAL INJUNCTION ACCEPTED..

Per Cable—Press "SBOolation—Oopyrlcht. SYDNEY, April 16,

In the case in which The Times, United Service, and Router's applied for injunctions restraining the Independent Cable Association from infringing their cable copyright, defendants have accepted a perpetual injunction.

Plaintiff's counsel refused | defendant's offer to pay £SO damages in each suit in ovder to avoid an inquiry before the Master in Equity,

[A cable on March 14th stated: The Equity Court has granted The Times, United Service, and Beuter's interim injunctions restraining the Independent Cable Association and Thomas Temperley from infringing alleged cable copyrights. The plaintiff's affidavits stated that. Temperley admitted personally copying the Sydney .Sun's cables for transmission to a certain paper, A recent employee of the defendant Association alleged that he personally heard Temperley direct employees to copy the Sun's cables and transmit ' them to papers. The Judge admitted the similarity in phraseology of the specimens submitted,]