Legal Opinion
Minden Pictures, Inc. v. Pearson Education, Inc.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided March 5, 2013No. C 11-05385 WHAPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
WILLIAM ALSUP, District Judge.
Introduction
In this copyright infringement action involving stock photography, defendant *964moves for summary judgment. For the reasons explained below, defendant’s motion is Granted.
Statement
Plaintiff Minden Pictures, Inc., is a stock photography agency that licenses photographs to publishers. Defendant Pearson Education, Inc., is a publisher of educational textbooks. It is undisputed that Pearson purchased licenses from Minden for thousands of photographs for use in Pearson’s educational publications. Min-den…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Nancey Silvers v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2005
- Atel Financial Corp., a California Corporation v. Quaker Coal Company, a Kentucky CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2003
- Pacific State Bank v. GreeneCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2003
- Nafal v. CarterDistrict Court, C.D. California · 2007
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- Grant Heilman Photography, Inc. v. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 2014
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