United States Eleventh Circuit
Greenberg v. National Geographic Soc'y, 05-16964
In suit alleging infringement of plaintiff's copyrights in photographs, which originally ran in defendants' magazine, when defendants released a CD-ROM set that reproduces each issue of National Geographic magazine from its first issue in 1888 through the late 20th century, verdict for plaintiffs finding willful infringement and assessing damages is reversed where portions of the CD-ROM set are privileged under 17 U.S.C. section 201(c).
Appellate Information
- Decided 06/13/2007
- Published 06/13/2007
Judges
- BARKETT, Circuit Judge:, Before EDMONDSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, ANDERSON, BIRCH, DUBINA, BLACK, CARNES, BARKETT, MARCUS, WILSON, PRYOR and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Eleventh Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Slade R. Metcalf, Hogan & Hartson, LLP, New York City, Arnold P. Lutzker, Lutzker & Lutzker, LLP, Washington, DC, William Andrew Pequignot, Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Amici Curiae.
- For Appellees:
- Kenneth Winston Starr, Christopher Landau, Erin E. Morrow, Elizabeth M. Locke, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Washington, DC, Stephen N. Zack, Jennifer G. Altman, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Miami, FL, Robert G. Sugarman, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, New York City, for Defendants-Appellants., Norman Davis, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, Miami, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.