Legal Opinion
Auscape International v. National Geographic Society
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 12, 2004No. 02 Civ.6441 LAKPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
In Faulkner v. National Geographic So ciety, 1 this Court held that a CD-ROM archive of digitized images of National Geographic Magazine (the “Magazine”), known as The Complete National Geographic (“CNG”), was a “revision” of the print publication within the meaning of Section 201(c) of the Copyright Act of 1976 2 and therefore did not infringe any copyrights held by freelance photographers and writers whose works first were published, with their consent, in the Magazine.
Plaintiffs in this case make the same claims rejected in Faulkner. But they assert…
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