COPYRIGHT OF MAPS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 998, 14 June 1930, Page 5

COPYRIGHT OF MAPS

A.A.A.’S CLAIM FROM FIRM IN WELLINGTON INFRINGEMENT ADMITTED Press A saociation WELLINGTON, Today A breach of a copyright formed the basis of an action brought in the Wellington Supreme Court by th--Auckland Automobile Association c-gainsr. Palmer and Ala-hood, Limited, of Wellington, who filed a confession of judgment. The infringement wain respect to plaintiff copyright of the motorists’ road ma » of the North Island. Plaintiffs claimed an injunction r» straining defendant from infringing its copyright and in particular from printing, publishing or selling motorists’ maps of the North Island which were copies of the plaintiff’s maps, or of material and substantial portions thereof, or of any colourable imitation. Plaintiff also asked for an a» count of the number of maps already printed, published or sold and of maps still in defendants possession or in the possession of any person by defendant’s order, tnd asked for the delivering up of al copies of the maps and the plates used or intended for use in connection with the maps. Costs were also claimed. On the day before the trial defendant company filed a confession of judgment, and on the following day legal argument was heard by Air. Justice Reed on the form of judgment t<> be entered and in particular, as to whether the plaintiff or the associ.: - tion was entitled, in addition to th» relief expressly claimed, to an account of the profit earned by defendants by publishing and selling the maps in breach of the plaintiff’s copy - right.