Legal Opinion
Auscape International v. National Geographic Society
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 7, 2006No. 02 Civ. 6441(LAK)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
Freelance photographers and writers who created images or wrote text that appeared in the National Geographic Magazine (the “Magazine”) bring this action against the National Geographic Society (“NGS”) and a number of its licensees, including ProQuest Information and Learning Company and ProQuest Company (collectively, the “ProQuest Defendants”). Plaintiffs claim that reproduction of their works as parts of CD-ROM collections of images of past issues of the Magazine violates their rights under the Copyright Act of 1976 1 the Lanham Act, 2 and state statutory and…
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