Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Associated Telephone Directory Publishers

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises from claims of copyright infringement and unfair competition *804involving the solicitation for and compilation of telephone directories. We affirm the district court’s ruling that copyright violations occurred in this case.

Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company (Southern Bell) is a publisher and distributor of telephone directories for its customers in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. In Georgia, Southern Bell produces eighty-five telephone directories grouped by communities with separate telephone exchanges. For many years…