Legal Opinion
Wu v. Pearson Education, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 30, 2011No. Nos. 09 Civ. 6557(RJH), 10 Civ. 6537(RJH)PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER AND OPINION
RICHARD J. HOLWELL, District Judge.
Norbert Wu (“Wu”) brings two purported class action suits under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 501, on behalf of photographers who have had their copyrights infringed by Pearson Education, Inc. (“Pearson”), a textbook publisher. In the first action, 09 Civ. 6557 (hereinafter “Wu /”), Wu alleges that Pearson engaged in a widespread practice of *261specifying a particular print-run for its books when obtaining a licensing agreement for photographs, a term that was incorporated into the licensing agreement, then exceeding the print-run,…
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