Read Buc Int'l Corp. v. Int'l Yacht Council Ltd., 04-13653

In a suit claiming copyright protection of a factual compilation, judgment for plaintiff is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff's compilation was sufficiently original; 2) the court did not err in instructing the jury that it could find copyright infringement if there were "substantial similarities" between the original elements of the plaintiff's compilation and corresponding elements of the defendants' compilation; and 3) the court was bound by the jury's finding that plaintiff's copyright registrations were valid in entering declaratory judgment on plaintiff's counterclaims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/21/2007
• Published 06/21/2007

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and FULLER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Philip D. Parrish, Philip D. Parrish, P.A., South Miami, FL, for BUC Intern. Corp.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael T. Moore, Moore & Co., P.A., Coral Gables, FL, Suzanne R. Eschrich, G. Donovan Conwell, Jr., Gayle Wrede Kirkpatrick, Conwell, Sukhia & Kirkpatrick, P.A., Ceci Culpepper Berman, Hala A. Sandridge, Fowler, White, Gillen, Boggs, Villareal & Banker, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.