In such motion, the other defendants subsequently joined. United States Printing and Lithograph Company, one of the defendants, by notice of motion dated September 12, 1945, asked for an order pursuant to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, directing plaintiff to produce certain records, and for an oral examination of its officers, and other persons, all of whom reside in England. The complaint now before the court alleges that defendants infringed these copyrights by reproducing the subject matter of the several mezzo-tints by a lithographic process. The prints were made from engraved metal plates which were copied from works of art such as ‘ The Blue Boy’, by Gainsborough.

Plaintiff, an art publisher in London, obtained, over the years extending from 1925 to 1940, English and United States copyrights on mezzo-tint prints of each of eight famous oil paintings.