United States Second Circuit

Judgment in favor of plaintiffs, awarding statutory damages for copyright infringement computed based on "compilations" in the form of compact discs, is vacated as a compilation created without authorization from the owners of the separate, infringed copyrights in its constituent parts is not a compilation contemplated by the last sentence of 17 U.S.C. section 504(c)(1).

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/19/2006
• Published 04/19/2006

Judges

• JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, FEINBERG and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carey R. Ramos (Lesley Friedman Rosenthal and John H. Longwell, on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, N.Y. (John F. Delaney, Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Paul Goldstein, Stanford, CA, and Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, New York, NY, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joe Miklas, Curator of the Estate of Robert W. Schachner, Tavernier, FL, Defendant-Appellee pro se.