Legal Opinion
Assessment Technologies of Wi, LLC v. Wiredata, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 17, 2004No. 03-2061PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In reversing the judgment for the plaintiff in this suit for copyright infringement, we described it as a case “about the attempt of a copyright owner to use copyright law to block access to data that not only are neither copyrightable nor copyrighted, but were not created or obtained by the copyright owner; the owner is trying to secrete the data in its copyrighted program — a program the existence of which reduced the likelihood that the data would be retained in a form in which they would have been readily accessible.” 350 F.3d 640, 641-42 (7th Cir.2003). We added:…
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