Legal Opinion
Darrell Taylor, D/B/A Darrell Taylor Topographic Charts v. Joseph B. Meirick, D/B/A Lakes Illustrated
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 7, 1983No. 83-1098PublishedCited by 239 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in a suit for copyright infringement raises questions regarding the statute of limitations in the Copyright Act of 1976 and the methods for determining damages in copyright and, by implication, other business-tort cases.
In 1974 the plaintiff, Taylor, doing business as Darrell Taylor Topographic Charts, copyrighted maps for use by fishermen of three Illinois lakes. The validity of his copyrights is conceded, as is the fact that the defendant, Meirick, doing business as Lakes Illustrated, copied the maps in 1976 and 1977…
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