Legal Opinion
Muench Photography, Inc. v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 4, 2010No. 7:09-mj-02669PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
LORETTA A. PRESKA, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff Muench Photography, Inc. (“MPI” or “Plaintiff’) brings this action pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 501 et seq. (the “Copyright Act”) against Defendants Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company (“HMH”) and R.R. Donnelly & Sons Company (“Donnelly,” and together with HMH, “Defendants”) alleging that Defendants engaged in the unauthorized and impermissible use of Plaintiffs images. Defendants now move to dismiss the Complaint for failure to state a cause of action pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6) arguing that the photographs at issue were…
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