Peter VEECK, doing business as RegionalWeb, Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellant,
v.
SOUTHERN BUILDING CODE CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL, INC., Defendant-Counter Claimant-Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 7, 2002.
June 7, 2002.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Eric P. Weisberg (argued), Weisberg Law Office, Denison, TX, for Veeck.
Robert J. Veal (argued), Burr & Forman, Birmingham, AL, for Southern Building Code Congress Intern. Inc.
Alan S. Wernick, James Terrence Hultquist, Quarles & Brady, Chicago, IL, for Building Officials and Code Administrators Intern., Inc., International Code Council and Intern. Conference of Building Officials, Amici Curiae.
Michael Lowenberg, Patrick F. McGowan, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, TX, Maureen B. Brodoff (argued), Quincy, MA, for American Medical Ass'n, American National Standards Institute, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, National Fire Protection Ass'n, Texas Municipal League, Underwriters Laboratories Inc., American Society of Ass'n Executives, American Society of Civil Engineers, International Ass'n of Plumbing & Mechanical Officials and NSF Intern., Amici Curiae.
Malla Pollack (argued), Northern Illinois University, School of Law, DeKalb, IL, pro se.
Karen Bryant Tripp, Houston, TX, for Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, Inc. and Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund, Amici Curiae.
Andrew Layton Schlafly, Far Hills, NJ, for Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund, Amicus Curiae.
Scott T. Williams, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, TX, for American Society of Civil Engineers, International Ass'n of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials and NSF Intern., Amici Curiae.
Before KING, Chief Judge, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH, WIENER, BARKSDALE, EMILIO M. GARZA, DeMOSS, BENAVIDES, STEWART, PARKER, DENNIS and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
The issue in this en banc case is the extent to which a private organization may assert copyright protection for its model codes, after the models have been adopted by a legislative body and become "the law". Specifically, may a code-writing organization prevent a website operator from posting the text of a model code where the code is identified simply as the building code of a city that enacted the model code as law? Our short...
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