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...signal victory for Macmillan Company, the agreement makes unnecessary further prosecution of the court action which was started Tuesday, April 24. At that time the publishing house asked in a motion filed with the U. S. District Court of Massachusetts that Joseph H. Hurvitz and Abraham Segel, proprietors of the tutoring school, be held in contempt of court for violating a decree of May 24, 1933 enjoining them from further infractions of the copyrights on certain of Macmillan's books...
...understood that Hurvitz and Segel admit that they have violated the 1933 decree by pirating these books in their tutoring notes and outlines. Macmillan Company stated Saturday that Hurvitz and Segel promised to have their Harvard Square office closed before today and never again to operate in Cambridge...
Agreeing never to infringe Macmillan Company's copyrights, Hurvitz and Segel reserved the right to carry on elsewhere than in Cambridge a "legitimate" business in notes and outlines of non-copyrighted books...
According to the settlement, Hurvitz and Segel will destroy all notes and stencils which Macmillan Company feels violated copyrights on its books. No money for damages was provided for in the agreement, but Hurvitz and Segel promised to pay $1,000 for any violations of the settlement which may occur in the future...
Declining to comment on the settlement, Hurvitz was silent yesterday about his plans...