Chabot v Davies and Another    Copyright – Infringement – Reproduction – Plan of shop-front – Shop-front itself – Design –
Copyright Act 1911 (c 46), s 22.
The plaintiff sent to the defendants, at their request, a blueprint plan and elevation of a shopfront
and an estimate for the work. No order was given to the plaintiff for the erection of the
shop-front. The shop-front was, however, erected for the defendants by a firm which worked
on a tracing of the plaintiff’s plan and elevation. The plaintiff brought an action against the
defendants for infringement of his copyright by authorising the reproduction of the plan. The
defendants contended that a plan could not be reproduced by a shop-front:—