Drauglis v. Kappa Map Group, LLC

MEMORANDUM OPINION

AMY BERMAN JACKSON, United States District Judge

Plaintiff Art Drauglis brought this copyright action against defendant Kappa Map Group, LLC, arising out of defendant’s use of a photograph taken by plaintiff as the cover art for a commercially-released Montgomery County, Maryland street atlas. Compl. [Dkt. # 1]. In Count I, plaintiff claims that defendant infringed his valid copyright in the photograph, in violation of 17 U.S.C. § 501, when it copied his work and used it on the atlas’s cover without plaintiffs permission. Id. ¶¶ 19-24. In Count II, plaintiff alleges that…