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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-04-12, Page 7Judgment Refuses Copyright To Advertising Agents' Copy Mr. Justice Astbury, After FourDay Hearing, Definitely Decided in Favor of Advertiser Against Agency Which Claimed Ownership London,—A ease 'of great import- ance to advertisers, advertising agents, and publishers has just been heard in the chancery divielon of the High Court of Justice• It concerned the point, which apparently had not been raised before in British law, • ,whether copyright in an advertise- *anent prepared by an edvertisin agency remained the property of the agency or ,# as. the property of its client, the advertiser. The case in question was complicat- ed and somewhat obscure, but the final decision of Mr. Justice Astbury, after a four -days' hearing, was deii- t(tely he favor e' the client and against the agent, who had brought the action in the endeavor to obtain. an injunction restraining betel the advertiser and one of the London < 'newspapers from using an advertise- ment the agent claimed to have pre-. ared. The agent had prepared an adver 'elseinent which his client had inserted in one of the London dailies and on which the agent received his usual commission. Subsequently, the client causedthe advertisement to' -be in - *meted in another paper, acting di- rectly and without the services of the agent. At this point the agent ap- pliedfor an injunction prohibiting the further use of the advertisement, on the ground that it was a literary work and as such came within the 'Copyright Act, under which title would remain in the author, who ap- peared as plaintiff. The decision held that no copy- right existed so far as the agent was !concerned, and that in employing the agent to prepare the advertisement, the advertiser and the agent had, in Great " I-Iopper" Plague Over New South Wales 1.:01.0.011,-- An "Farming ing Neiwsf' dispatch from Sydney swye the Preach or a great plague of grasea. lletreere to repotted from siouthern New South Waiter. The advance guard. of the inmate was described es twenty melee wide, behind which are swarms extending ten miles; rapidly canawmtng what was a<•n abunde- t geese crop:" ' Fences in the area are draped With thouea'nds of inserts, whim untwists, passing: through ft reported that their radi- ators adimors were dogged and atb:ed'r wind- shields wowed. effect, contracted themselves out of the opyright Act. It further held that the agent's interest in the adver- tisement in question only eacisteid' so long as the advertieer continued to use the agent's services. As no con- tract existed by which the advertiser was bound to continue to use these services, and no copyright as applp- ing to original literarywork existed, the agent's application for an injunc- tion against both his former client and the newspaper must fail. It is assumed that the .points of contentionin the case can in future be clearly covered in the written agreement between agencies and cli- ents, but in view of the delicate per- sonal relations existing between such parties and of the fact that many firms frequently change their a -'tints, the prospect is not a very pleasant one for the agencies• Heavy Weather y �a Duchess Honors Irish Guards and St, Patrick DUCHESS OF YORK PRESENTS SHAMROCKS TO GUARDS ON ST. PATRICK'S DAY Tile Duchess of York presented shamrocks to the First Battalinn of the Irish Guards at Chelsea barracks on St. Patrick's Day. This illustration shows the Duchess of York inspecting the Guards before the presentation. Canada to Open Ships -to -Cities Air Mail Line Planes Will Meet Liners on Arrival, Then Speed to Montreal and Toronto May Link Winnipeg in 1929 Flyers Effective in Opening afforded by the great success of the Northwest Territory Canadian wheat pool. The program for the four -state pool, Heaney Will Meet "Tunuey in Title Bout Wheat Pol Based on Canadian Plan r;e gresses in Four Western States Uollancl First To Broadcast To Colonies '. Tex Richard' Selects New PCJJ, at Kootwijk, Furnishes Zealander for Champion- ship Fight After 3 -Cor- tiered Conference PERHAPS IN LONDON Gena Tannery, heavyweight awn - pion of ,ime wield, will defend his title egalest Tone I-Ieeney, rug'g+a'd ex -black- smith of New Zwelsnnd, in July in a Programs to East Indies on Short Wave HEARD AROUND WORLD Lengths Develop New Systems For Telephone, • Broadcasting The recent anncunceeaeat that the ring pitched somnewbere to the'United Dutch ohort wave station POJJ is to States, ar England, Tex Richard, own, transm'l/t regularly between 8 end 0 err and proprietor of pugilistic "Bat Pala on Tuesday, Thurerd'aye and' Sate bice of the Century," announced, Dee =days is of interest, as Holland was tacbally at MUatni Beach, lits. And the fins$ nation'to do radio broadccvsb thereby hangs a tame, work to the East Indies, and the nes- After wbittltng away me ,traditional sages seat out on about 30 matinee Rtokardian bayllrltoo, it appearty that' were heard very well in Australia and, tie Insist be+t now ava411 bee ie blah i &wail ae well. Turney and Hewn/ will: meet in a I The English stations later broad-, fifteen-reunnd enmonter at tine Yankee . east from their .station at Daventry' Stadium in Neave York on the eveceing; some musical shows that vrere relayed of Tbursday, July 28, !from the Dutch radio station at Bind- Rickard's! ambitious direr:Tee of stag-' hoven, so that the performance was Ing the Tenney-Hee/ley flight in Lon - !heard around the world. Queen Wile don must be taken with a bacicet or , helnuine made a speech to her dial two of salt, according to espmnte. Tax tont eolonfe , and following that a has the mammoth Wemlblay Stadiums broadhnst service was established • that on the outskires of .the world's largest was at first of and experimental nee city In mina as a possible elle ter tbs tare, though given at fairly regular bout. John Mortimer, see -confessed intervals T� Netherlands government in- discovered of Joe Beckett, wilco has an go interest in Heaney, is etactring that stalled a telephone 'radio eervtee front Holland to the East Indies, relayed via India, so that it be possible for persona to pick up the telephone in their ova homes in distant parts of Java and talk with relatives or Sioux Falls, S.D.—Plans are being the Nation, It is stated that the new pushed to a successful conclusion for 1)001 will be of much the same inagni- the organization of a four -state wheat i tude as the Canadian wheat pool, the influence of which already is being pool, with headquarters in South Da- felt in the great marketing centers of Da- kota. the world. The plan is called one of the most With the headquarters el the four - ambitious ever undertaken by wheat state pool in South Dakota, in the growers of the United States, and en- center of the spring' wheat section, couragement for the movement was the annual production of which totals Montreal.—Plans have been cum - formulated by W. 0. Allen, publisher plated by the Canadian Post Office De- -of a- South Dakota farm paper, pro - over 300,000,000 bushels, it is hoped the now venture will gain impetus and increased support as the work of per- fecting the organization proceeds. As wheat pooling on a large scale pertinent for an extension of the air vides for combining wheat growers of has proven a success in Western Oan- mail service connecting large elites, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota add, those pushing the organization of such as Montreal -and Toronto, with and South Dakota, the pool say there Is no reason why the first land stop 01 trans-Atlantic It is pointed out that the territory the United States should lag behind liners- Tis winter tests have been to be included in the pool is one of Canada in adopting more efficient proceeding for air mail service from ,the richest wheat producing areas in moans of: marketing wheat. St. John's and Halifax to ,Montreal. Last fall service was suceusstully maintained from St. John and Halifax Reful'ta a to Grant to Montreal and between Rimouski e and- Montreal. The latter service is j 1c !i r Je a ' toe resume and b d a 1 extended down the ' SEAS ROUTED AUTO PASSENGERS So high did the wavee rise recently at Durban, Smyth Africa, that pas- sengers in passing motor ears were forced to abandon their vehiolesa and take to flight. Huge sea broke over the promenade. Abd el Krim Passes Long Days As Exile Cultivating Garden Ex -Sultan of Riff, Who Led Tribesmen in Revolt, Enjoys Placid Existence Abd el Krim, onetime master of the • Riff and the man whose hardy moan-. taineer tribesmen reached the very gates of Fez before they were hurled' back by the French in one of the fleeciest series of engagements since the World War, says "The London.. Daily Mail," la supporting his banish- ,. meat at Saint Denis, in the Island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, with . true Oriental patience. "The Sultan of the Riff" took Tribe him only two wives out of his numer- ous harem. They were his favorites, Fatima and Alcha. Iiia other compan- ions in exile are his brother, Si Mo- hammed, and his uncle Abdeslem, his. mother and his sisters and the fami- lies of his brother and his uncle. Dur- ing the long voyage from Casablanca, the chief port of Morocco, to Reunion, a son was born to him, so that he now has three, sons. Abel el Wrimel brother discarded hie Moorish attire as soon as the ship reached Marseilles, but Abd el Brim. himself did not adopt European Wall- ing until he reached Reuniqu. He is living in•'a country' house rented specialty to lolige him, and which has been sohnewhat hastily dubbed "the Chateau de Maurange." In reality the house has nothing of a castle about it, but consists of only a ground floor and a fleet floor, with, a vegetable'. gar den, an orchard and a meadow ad joining. '`ilia first care Was to furnish hie new home as comfortably as possible', and eel his wives and hid family at their ease. When he left Morocco he knew only the rudiments et the French language, but he has set him- self to study it deeply, and to -day he speaks it as fluently as hid brother, who to renowned as a good trout* *choler, Abd el Krines two elder children at, north shore of the St. Lawrence to Can•?,dian Radio Murray Bay and Anticosti Island. inaugurated with the carriage of, mail Marine and Fisheries' Failure to and from ocean liners between to Renew Permit Will j Rimouski and Montreal and Toronto. The contract for the service to Toron- to is to be awarded in the near fu. ture. It will give Toronto quick de- livery of letter mail to and from Eur- branch of the Department of Marine ope. If the Toronto service proves and Fisheries •iu refusing to renew successful, in another year an exten- the radio licences previously granted sign of it as far west as Winnipeg will to'broadcasting stations operated by be made. the International Bible Studen s s - This last step, if it can be achieved, sociation of Canada will probably will go far toward establishing a re- raise the whole question of radio con- gular transcontinental airways, across trol and bring to the floor of the Canada. The actual need for such an House of Commons for debate, it was airway at the present time is doubted stated here by Howard Ross, K. 0, by some business men who have given who, with Norman Heyd, barrister, in - their unqualified support to the de- terviewed officials of the radio branch on behalf of the Bible Students' As- . soclation. The association operates broadcast -i ing stations at Toronto, Saskatoon,1 Edmonton and Burnaby, B.C., pathos i A more important extension e to be situation there now, ae be IIeeney bEmr eseIf in the course of a vacation in Lon- don. Rickard Likes New Places Rickard's method al'way's ;has been to seek new, unexploited territory East st for" friends in Rolland. India each of his Battles of the Century. The cof the DTluutch stC. Holt - You've "Never go back again to a plane Wireless Company, you've drawn a huge grate ,for a heavy- zappel, who attendled the recent Ra - weight cibamipionahip fight," he has of- dlotelegnaph Conference held in Wash - ten declared. "Now York should pro- •dnlgton, was chic be hid his wife adieu duce a gate of $1,600,000 for a Tun- before sailing from the Netherlands neyetible fight, but Chicago, which for America by the simple procedure Pale $2300,000 for the second Tummy- of talking over the telephone to her Dempsey show; would not pay $000; from his hotel room at The Hague in 000 for another ane. Philadeil;phla, Ilolland, and calling her at their heave where Tenney won 'hire title, might be at Basdoong, Java. worth $600,000 for a second trip. The I•Ie stated that the static is much next fight will be in virgin territory." wo+'ia in the tropics, and is their' great probnre in the East Indies. They do net maintain a regular pub- • lir Cervice, but plan one in the near future, as the present one is a goer- erneeent o'aa The hreadcast stations in Reiland are using the crystal control method, but net in ether countries, though it Is hoped to establish this system in the colonies as well. Monsieur Phiiline, who ie responsible for the stati"*r. at . Eindhoven, invented the wafter -cots - trolled valves used theme for iaeir crystal -controlled sets, which have <I been most succesetul• Holland be studying the beam sys- tem, according to G. F. Rotifer, dele- gate of the recent conference, and he 1 stated also that it is hoped that a station using this new method may be operated in Holland in the near fu- ture, as they wish to install any new methods that prove, to be of practio able value. Raise Question of Authority Montreal,—Action of the radio velopment of air lines covering terri- tory north and south of the transcon- tinental railway system. The airplane has proved an effec- tive 'instrument in opening up terri- Runner Insures Legs For $50,000 Galt, Ont.—Cliff Bricker' of Galt valines hie lege. One of Canada's chief Mopes in the marathon race at the 011ympics this year, Bricker has taken out a $50,000 insurance Policy on his limbs as a precaution- ary measure. The penny maven; Bricker for ithe loss of usae of his feet, legs, knees or tees as well as in the event of amputation of any of these parts; s ing Your Bell "1- ne'•'1 to advent'se: I J have be• t, knsin se In this ulna I0r 1 tseete ream w. Ota and child ler- knewe where i em cud what i sei1." The advertising salesman looked across tine street and saw a church. He asked how long it 'beet been bulit. The store- keeper replied that It bad been there for half a century. "And. yet they ring the church bell every Sunday morning," the, advertising titian remarked. radio branch, Mr. Ross said that the !whole larger question of free speech ' is wrapped up in the present con- •troversy, The Bible Students' As- sociation admits that it is broadcast- ing controvslal matter, but it main- tains that It has the right to do so in the same way that the news- papers have the right to discuss con- troversial matters in their editorial columns. Mr. Ross pointed out that in Eng- land the. government for a time re- tfused to permit the discussion of con- troversial matters over the radio, but I only a short time ago rescided the j order in response to public demand !that free speech be permitted over ' the radio, as from the public plat - 1 form and in the press. t6ry in the northwest of Canada. The on the air programs of music and lec- a1r operations through this district, tures on religious subjects. When application was made recently ton re- newal of the broadcasting licenses the radio branch notified the association that further licenses will not be granted because the lectures in the past have contained religions' matter which 'presented many handicaps to the pilot, and where forced landings were extremely dangerous, have been fairly successful. The Western anada Airways oper- ates a regular service from Winnipeg into the mining districts to the north. A fleet of Fokker Universal planed, de- livered to: the Winnipeg base this win- ter by Bernt Balchen, now maintains a regular service into this district. Marian Taalley,4 youthful singer, earned more than $300;000two years. Her notes, evidently, draw x w g 'interest. tend the local college every, day. They speak the Ohleuhdialect at home, but the rest of the time they converse fluently in: French with their French playmates. But though Abd el Krim now dress- es in European clothes, he continues to observe the customs of his coun- try, ouptry, and the fullest' freedom is allow- ed him in this respect. He -has made the acquaintance of a large number of people on the island and he often passes long hours with his friends, the most intimate of whom la the lieutenant, of gendarmerie. The former Rig chieftain spends a great deal of hip thne cultivating his garden, which he is doing with no Iib.' tle success. Hie two wives, his moth,. ,er and his two eistere take frequent walks in the country, but always;; dressed in their native costumes. We recognise this year les 1929$ the MohamrnedanO dall It 18461 Op Dawe 60881 1110 Jaime*, 2G87,. and e Awe, Calendar 003;11 10 7480, by dancers really are that it 10 •ahoutt i,U'OOi000,000, i of a controversial nature. Since the time the association has been takiug action to determine whether the gov- ernment has the right to control broadcasting in this way, and a pet- ition has been circulated which will later be presented to the, Prime Min- ister. Commenting on the action the New Type. Fast Tanks Teacher—"Tommy, you've not done a stroke of• work this morning, and !nye told you again and again that the devil finds work for idle hands to do." `Tommy—"Yes'nr:' Teacher "Now Wife your copybook and write that out 20 times." This 1611' any tin -pan eine feature of the military parade, display THE WHIPPETS O.N PARAog 1111 the "march past" of the speedster at 'Tallinn, notlel tanks whlrlt British Budget Surplus Shown • London, April 1.—The Chancellor of the exchequer Saturday made good the prediction of Winston Churchill on March 23 that the budget would show a surplus for the first time in three years. It announced•that for the fiscal year elided today there was a surplus of j4,230,124. Total revenue was £542,824,465, and expenditures were Z838,585,341. was alt lntpres- GOD OF FIRE ERUPTS The volcano Krakattea in the Sunda Strait, between Java and Sumatra, which recently became active after a long rest. A Pirate Treasure On Batley Island, one of the 365 Is- lands in Oasoo Bay and near Portland, lite., was foundthe only treasure sup posed bo &save been buried by Captain Kidd. A man named John Wilson, win dived on the island seventy-five ansi's ago, seeking the legendary treasure, dug up a copper kettle winch had been burled deep in the ground. lit contained $12,000 in Spanish gaald. Although •the search for other pirate treasure has been perverted along the coast for many yeses, only the Bailey Wand and has rewarded the eager seekers of ease money. She—'One doctor claims that love is a disease." He—"Thank goodness, I haven't been vaccinated." Equally Important. For a bit of a likeness twixt motors an dmen, you don't have to search very fart much depends on what's an - der the hat of a man, and what's un- der the hood of a car., British Columbia Paper—A free vassination clinic le being held at the General Hospital this week. You ate urged to come early and avoid the rush. Another proof of the new Ford's power is its ability to knock two hum, died dollars off the price of other card. Our g+rsndametihters kneaded and baked the bete ehalth bread. Their gratiolrlbdeen find a better dlsposltlon of their time and band lelror. Our grandfathers fed horsoe three timefl a day, repaired harnesses and wagons, and received a small deletion of ea floiency therefrom. Their agrandobdl' dren aide flee thine as fest, hen times as fare, and feed tllelr Iran horses only ate service le needed. Liquor Downfall of Codling Moths Vernon, B.0,—Codliiwg moths like their lives' as Well WO tlhe choice trans of the .Okanagan Valley, eta orchardists here ee'e gllanning bo trap the mots with "hooch pots." "Apple cider,. sugar and .yeast 4e the ocentination Which lures the moth," declares a fruit expert, "Last 7658' in Wenatchee, Werke ingtion, 17,429 moths—•yeti, thee ooacudbed then—'i` are esendured att dderbadt traps diming a single set, soft, on a Aileeore etfpen*mantdlt been"