United States Eleventh Circuit

Under 17 USC 201(c) of the Copyright Act, a CD-ROM of past magazine issues is neither a "revision of collective work" of the copyrighted photographs in each issue, nor subject to a fair use defense, and the magazine must compensate photographers for subsequent use of their photographs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/22/2001
• Published 03/22/2001

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Norman Davis,Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Patricia A. Felch, Chicago, IL, for American Soc. of Media Photographers, Inc., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Naomi Jane Gray, Robert G. Sugarman, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, New York City, Terrence B. Adamson, Sr. Vice President-Nat. Geographic Soc., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.