"The Town That Didn't Exist - How a copyright trap became a real place" tells the whimsical true story of Agloe, New York. In the 1930s, the General Drafting Co. created a map and inserted a fake town called "Agloe" (an anagram of the directors' initials) on a dirt road in the Catskills. This was a "copyright trap" designed to catch competitors stealing their work.Author John Atlas details the twist: Years later, Rand McNally released a map that also showed Agloe. General Drafting sued for plagiarism. But Rand McNally won. Why? Because people had looked at the first map, driven to the spot,...
"The Town That Didn't Exist - How a copyright trap became a real place" tells the whimsical true story of Agloe, New York. In the 1930s, the General D...
