Excerpt from The Law Reports, Vol. 8: Court of Exchequer
The plaintiffs are the proprietors of a weekly periodical called "Punch." Between the years 1849 and 1867 they published in nine several numbers nine cartoons, with descriptive writing underneath them with reference to the Emperor Napoleon III. In 1871 the defendant published a work called "The Man of his Time," consisting, first, of the "Story of the Life of Napoleon III., by James M. Haswell;" and, secondly, of "The same Story as told by Popular Caricaturists of the last Thirty Years." Among the caricatures in part 2, were copies in a reduced form, sometimes with and sometimes without the descriptive writing, of the nine cartoons above mentioned. No consent from the plaintiffs to this production had been obtained. In an action by them for infringement of their copyright in the several books or "sheets of letterpress" containing the cartoons: -
Held, that a substantial part of the plaintiffs' books, or sheets of letterpress, had been appropriated, and that they were entitled to recover.
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