Legal Opinion
Williams & Wilkins Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided November 27, 1973No. 73-68PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, Judge
We confront a ground-breaking copyright infringement action under 28 U.S.C. § 1498(b), the statute consenting to infringement suits against the United States.1 Plaintiff Wil-*79Hams & Wilkins Company, a medical publisher, charges that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), has infringed plaintiff’s copyrights in certain of its medical journals by making unauthorized photocopies of articles from those periodicals. Modern photocopying in its relation to copyright spins off troublesome problems,…
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