Colliery Engineer Co. v. Ewald

Citations

• 126 F. 843
• 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 5212

Syllabus

<p>1. Copyright — Infringement—Violation of Injunction.</p> <p>Defendants were enjoined from the further publication -of certain educational text-books copied literally from prior copyrighted publications of complainant, which were themselves largely compiled from older works. Subsequently defendants took the infringing books and compared them with the authorities from which complainant’s compilations were made, striking out the portions which were not there found, and republishing the remainder in a new edition. EeM, that such use of the infringing publication was within defendants’ rights, and that they were not chargeable with a violation of the injunction.</p>