Taylor v. Gilman

This action is brought upon section 4965, Rev. St., to recover one dollar, half to the use of the United States and half *633to the use of the plaintiff, for each of several hundred thousand copies of a work alleged to be a chart, copyrighted by the plaintiff, and printed by the defendant, and found in his possession. The original copyright act of 1790 provided for maps, charts, and books. 1 St. at Large, 124. A chart then was a marine map, as is shown by all the dictionaries of the time, both English and American. Historical or other prints were added by the act of 1802, (2 St. at Large, 171;)…