Legal Opinion
Ward v. National Geographic Society
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 13, 2002No. 99 CIV. 12385(LAK)PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Defendants National Geographic Society (“NGS”), National Geographic Enterprises, Inc. (“NGE”), Mindscape Inc. (“Minds-cape”), and Dataware Technologies, Inc. (“Dataware”) produce and market “The Complete National Geographic,” a digital archive of all past issues of National Geographic Magazine (the “Magazine ”) on CD-ROM and DVD. Plaintiff Fred Ward, a freelance photographer and writer, claims that the production and sale of this product violates his intellectual property rights in photographs and text that originally appeared in the print version of…
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