Show COPYRIGHT SUIT WITHDRAWN some days ago the news gave tha particulars of a suit planted by this new york herald against the san ban francisco ClA chronicle ronicle to an injunction agal against t the 10 ter paper prohibiting it from reproducing news matter cof righted by the former con m chronicle took the ground that new is not subject to copyright and that no paper merely by paying a dollar collat the copyright fee can prevent all other othea papers from publishing a piece of news the herald evidently was hoi riot prepared to the of journalistic ensure censure which attempt on the chronicle malsed ral sed and a few days atter after tu press of the country began to cota c ment on the matter withdrew the sul suit since the withdrawal withdraw aT it has publish har an announcement that it does not ock eject to the reproduction of Us its ne new dispatches on the following day provided due credit is given to it hut but it protests pro teats against their publication aft W any other paper on the same mornine on which it prints them relative tot this phase of the subject the sayid sayd from this we infer that our nd andr york contemporary has been beeb gating the matter of copyrighting facts atod and has come to the that its ith posit loh Is not 00 WWI at first imagined it was TO tab I 1 to print on the edert f isitt ir the nature of th ah lo 10 thaw it to is e a manifest absurdity to baeume because a newspaper sains gains ledge edge of a fact in advance of its or by some means or M secures maures possession of an import am document by paying a dollar as aa a 00 copyright arl tee fee it can enjoy the excle at lye privilege of disseminating the in ih aaion it has acquired for the abd of twenty eight years our contemporary after a little further investigation will find that its po Is made no stronger by its pro paal oal to allow papers to arnt its copyrighted il ted facts after the lapse of a day it afie law does not give it a monopoly fot ty twenty eight years it does not do so twenty tour four hours As a matter of abet it does not afford protection for ahr minutes the lawmakers never haf having I 1 dg d signed designed e to extend the I 1 jeam of the copyright law to publish I 1 e erato to enable them to enjoy a monopoly f di IS of news the copy law is what it purports tobe on I 1 11 tt tace it is merely a protection to jha eort of property which may be V erly termed a product of the intel ae q it is not intended to cover news e can be no ownership in a fact made nn e public the instant a piece im is related it ceases to have value 11 it 21 looks as if the great new york r had been trying to run a big VMS U ulu on its coast CO tem poran and was to hedge in the opinion or of tb ama amper nothing but defeat will come of ate efforts to I 1 prevent other papers efti printing th the news |