Legal Opinion
Faulkner v. National Geographic Society
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 18, 2006No. 97 Civ. 9361(LAK), 99 Civ. 12488(LAK), 02 Civ. 12385(LAK)PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAPLAN, District Judge.
The plaintiffs in these three actions are freelance photographers and writers whose work has been published in National Geographic Magazine (the “Magazine”). The essence of their claim is that they granted National Geographic Society (“NGS”) limited rights to publish their works in the Magazine and that NGS and the other the defendants infringed their intellectual property and contract rights by republishing their work beyond the rights granted to them. This Court has dismissed plaintiffs’ federal claims, including those based upon the Copyright Act of 1976 (the…
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