Legal Opinion
Psihoyos v. National Geographic Society
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 3, 2005No. 04 CIV. 4941(RMB)PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
BERMAN, District Judge.
I. Introduction
Louis Psihoyos (“Plaintiff’ or “Psihoyos”) brings this action against The National Geographic Society (“Defendant” or “NGS”) under the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq. (See Complaint, filed June 23, 2004.) Psihoyos alleges that NGS infringed upon his copyrights in a photograph of a dinosaur fossil and an illustration of the dinosaurs in life, which appeared in Psihoyos’ book, Hunting Dinosaurs, by “creating] copies of the Fossil Photograph and drawing” and then “publishing the infringing copies on the same page of [the] March 2003 issue…
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