United States Seventh Circuit
ASSESSMENT TECHS. OF WI, LLC v. WIREDATA, INC., 03-2061
Plaintiff, a database software manufacturer, cannot by contract or copyright prevent municipalities from revealing their own data that exists within the database, especially when the complete data are unavailable anywhere else, and might constitute copyright misuse.
Appellate Information
- Decided 11/25/2003
- Published 11/25/2003
Judges
- POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, DIANE P. WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Seventh Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Daniel R. Johnson (argued), Ryan Kromholz & Manion, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Alan Deutch (argued), Deutch & Weiss, Fox Point, WI, for Defendant-Appellant.