Jerry Greenberg v. Nat'l Geographic Soc'y
Eleventh Circuit: June 30, 2008
Appeal from the Southern District of Florida
Before: Dubina, Carnes, Edmondson, Pryor, Birch, Barkett, Wilson, Kravitch, Anderson, Tjoflat, Black, Marcus
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Tagged: sentencing, ip
Authorities Cited: 17 U.S.C. § 101 17 U.S.C. § 102(a) 17 U.S.C. § 102(a) 17 U.S.C. § 106 17 U.S.C. § 106(3) 17 U.S.C. § 201(c) 17 U.S.C. § 201(d)(2) 28 U.S.C. § 46(c) 48 C.F.R. § 52.227 93 U.S. 217, 223 103 U.S. 417, 420-421 114 U.S. 176, 186 428 U.S. 106, 121 433 U.S. 483 498 U.S. 73, 77 508 U.S. 439, 447 510 U.S. 332, 333 533 U.S. 483 669 F.2d 852 747 F.2d 610, 613-614 116 F.3d 468 132 F.3d 534 154 F.3d 1107 206 F.3d 161, 166-16710 239 F.3d 619, 622-626 244 F.3d 1267 379 F.3d 1363, 1374 409 F.3d 26, 30-40 487 F.3d 701, 716 488 F.3d 1331 502 F.3d 1255, 1280 23 F. Supp. 2d 1146, 1149 293 F. Supp. 130, 146 294 F. Supp. 2d 523, 539 825 F. Supp. 261, 262 919 F. Supp. 1534, 1541 933 F. Supp. 1222, 1230-1231 972 F. Supp. 804, 815-819
Blogged: How Appealing "11th Circuit Sides With National Geographic in Copyright Case; Judges vote 7-5 that freelancers cannot collect royalties from magazine's CD-ROM of its archives" How Appealing By a vote of 7-5, the en banc Eleventh Circuit holds that National Geographic did not infringe the copyrights of a freelance photographer when the publication reproduced within a thirty-disc CD-ROM the print magazine issues that included his photographs