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The defendant conducts his place of business for profit, and it is public; and the music is
performed for profit.
Roblesfiledheranswer,whereinshedeniedthatsheplagiarizedandcopied,stressingoutthatthe
bookistheproductofherownresearches,studiesandexperiences,andDEPfollowedthescope
andsequenceorsyllabuswhicharecommontoallEnglishgrammarwritersasrecommendedby
theAssociationofPhilippineCollegesofArtsandSciences(APCAS."
ISSUE:
(1)whetherornot,respondentscommittednocopyrightinfringement;
RULING:
Thereisaninfringementbecauseoftherespondentsactofliftingfromthebookofpetitioners
substantialportionsofdiscussionsandexamples,andherfailuretoacknowledgethesameinher
book.somuchistakenthatthevalueoftheoriginalworkissubstantiallydiminished.
Indeterminingthequestionofinfringement,theamountofmattercopiedfromthecopyrighted
workisanimportantconsideration.Toconstituteinfringement,itisnotnecessarythatthewhole
orevenalargeportionoftheworkshallhavebeencopied.
Itwasconsidereds]\asanindiciaofguiltorwrongdoingtheactofrespondentRoblesofpulling
outfromGoodwillbookstoresthenwasrevised.
G.R. No. 148222. August 15, 2003.]
PEARL & DEAN (PHIL.), INCORPORATED, petitioner, vs. SHOEMART,
INCORPORATED, and NORTH EDSA MARKETING, INCORPORATED, respondents.
Pearl and Dean (Phil.), Inc. is a corporation engaged in the manufacture of
advertising display units simply referred to as light boxes, which is basically a poster
with backlights. The advertising light boxes were marketed under the trademark
Poster Ads, with a Certificate of Copyright.
Metro Industrial Services manufactures the said advertising displays for Pearl and
Dean, and it, offered to construct light boxes for Shoemarts chain of stores, which
was then approved by SM. and Dean filed this instant case for infringement of
trademark and copyright, unfair competition and damages.
ISSUE: Whether an advertising display unit (light box) could be granted copyright
protection (copyright certificate of registration)
HELD:
Although petitioners copyright certificate was entitled Advertising Display Units
(which depicted the box-type electrical devices), its claim of copyright infringement
cannot be sustained.
P & D secured its copyright under the classification class O work. This being so,
petitioners copyright protection extended only to the technical drawings and not to the
light box itself Stated otherwise, even as we find that P & D indeed owned a valid
copyright, the same could have referred only to the technical drawings within the
category of pictorial illustrations. It could not have possibly stretched out to include the
underlying light box. The light box was not a literary or artistic piece which could be
copyrighted under the copyright law.