Legal Opinion
Basic Books, Inc. v. Kinko's Graphics Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 28, 1991No. 89 Civ. 2807 (CBM)PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
MOTLEY, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, all major publishing houses in New York City, brought this suit against Kinko’s alleging copyright infringement pursuant to the Copyright Act of 1976. 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq. More specifically, plaintiffs allege that Kinko’s infringed their copyrights when Kinko’s copied excerpts from books, whose rights are held by the plaintiffs, without permission and without payment of required fees and sold the copies for a profit. Plaintiffs request relief in the form of statutory damages, injunction, declaratory judgment and…
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