Legal Opinion
Faulkner v. National Geographic Society
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 15, 2008No. 97 CIV 09361(LAK), 02 CIV 6623(LAK)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
LEWIS A. KAPLAN, District Judge.
These actions were brought by free lance photographers whose worked appeared in the National Geographic Magazine against its publisher, the National Geographic Society (“NGS”) and others, principally for copyright infringement and breach of contract. Their theory was that the reproduction of the work they had sold or licensed for use in the print edition of the magazine in a CD-ROM 1 version infringed their copyrights in the photographs or required additional payment as a matter of contract.
In a series of decisions, both this Court and the…
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