Dwight v. Appleton

THOMPSON, Circuit Justice.

The stat-. utes made to secure the copyright to authors in their works are somewhat obscurely expressed; and the English decisions shed very little light on the subject; though these acts are penal, yet they are remedial also, and made in favor of the aggrieved party, and to secure his rights, and the forfeiture goes in part to him. The jury were authorized to-give fifty cents for every sheet contained in the volumes found at any time, within the period stated in the declaration, to have been in the possession of the defendants. The law applies to all the copies…