BASIC BOOKS, INC. v. KINKO'S GRAPHICS CORP.

No. 89 Civ. 2807 (CBM).

758 F.Supp. 1522 (1991)

BASIC BOOKS, INC., Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., McGraw-Hill, Inc., Penguin Books USA, Inc., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Richard D. Irwin, Inc., and William Morrow & Co., Inc., Plaintiffs, v. KINKO'S GRAPHICS CORPORATION, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

March 28, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald S. Rauchberg, Charles S. Sims, Herman L. Goldsmith, Jon A. Baumgarten, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Dean A. Olds, Jeffery A. Handelman, Thomas A. Schmidt, Kevin J. McDevitt, Willian, Brinks, Olds, Hofer, Gilson & Lione, Chicago, Ill., John S. Siffert, Lankler, Siffert & Wohl, New York City, for defendant.


FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

MOTLEY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, all major publishing houses in New York City, brought this suit against Kinko's alleging copyright infringement pursuant to the Copyright Act of 1976. 17 U.S.C. § 101, et seq. More specifically, plaintiffs allege that Kinko's infringed their copyrights when Kinko's copied excerpts from books, whose rights are held by the plaintiffs, without permission and without payment of...

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