Read XOOM, INC. v. IMAGELINE, INC., 02-1121

Defendant owned copyright in a computer program and database related to clip art images and in underlying works, thus registration of copyrights permitted an infringement action on the underlying parts, whether new or pre-existing. Defendant is entitled to a maximum of two awards of statutory damages under the Copyright Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/21/2003
• Published 03/21/2003

Judges

• Before MICHAEL and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and JAMES H. MICHAEL, Jr., Senior United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: Thomas Henry Oxenham, III, Chandler, Franklin & O'Bryan, Charlottesville, Virginia;  Wyatt B. Durrette, Jr., Durrette Bradshaw, P.L.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellants.  Tobey Baroukh Marzouk, Marzouk & Parry, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Bradford M. Young, Chandler, Franklin & O'Bryan, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Appellants.  Thomas M. Parry, Marzouk & Parry, Washington, D.C.;   Robert M. Tyler, McGuirewoods, L.L.P., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.