Legal Opinion
Cooley v. Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 14, 2014No. 12-cv-0001 (LAK)PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.
Brian Cooley created two sculptures of dinosaur eggs for the National Geographic Society (“National Geographic”) for use in connection with an article in its magazine, National Geographic. Louis Psihoyos photographed the sculptures so that the photographs could be published in the article. Pursuant to the terms of their respective contracts with National Geographic, both Cooley and Psihoyos transferred the copyrights in their works to National Geographic with the copyrights to be assigned to them at different times after publication. Later,…
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