Legal Opinion
Spinelli v. National Football League
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 11, 2018No. 17-0673-cv; August Term, 2017PublishedCited by 230 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Gerard E. Lynch, Circuit Judge:
*192 Plaintiffs-Appellants are seven sports photographers who make a living taking and licensing photographs of NFL events. Defendants-Appellees are the National Football League, various other league entities, and its 32 constituent teams (collectively, "the NFL"); the Associated Press ("AP"), which licenses NFL event photographs for commercial and editorial uses; and Replay Photos, LLC, which sells NFL photographs through an online store. Through this lawsuit, Plaintiffs seek to recover damages on copyright, contract, and tort theories of liability after the NFL…
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