Legal Opinion
Faulkner v. National Geographic Enterprises Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 4, 2005No. Docket Nos. 04-0263-CV(L), 04-0388-CV(CON), 04-0265-CV(CON), 04-04750CV(CON), 04-0318-CV(CON), 04-0481-CV(CON)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge.
Appellants are freelance photographers and authors whose photographs and/or written works were originally published in various issues of the National Geographic Magazine. These photographs and writings have now been published in “The Complete National Geographic” (“CNG”), a digital collection of the past issues of the Magazine that offers users various means of searching, viewing, and displaying pages of these issues. Appellants and their representatives brought copyright infringement actions under the Copyright Act of 1976, as amended, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq. (“Act”),…
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