BELLSOUTH ADV. & PUB. CORP. v. DONNELLEY INFO. PUB.

No. 89-5131.

999 F.2d 1436 (1993)

BELLSOUTH ADVERTISING & PUBLISHING CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Counterclaim Defendant-Appellee, v. DONNELLEY INFORMATION PUBLISHING, INC. and The Reuben H. Donnelley Corp., Defendants-Counterclaim Plaintiffs-Appellants, BellSouth Corporation, et al., Counterclaim Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas C. Broeker, Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Strickroot, P.A., Miami, FL, David L. Foster, Theodore Case Whitehouse, Francis J. Menton, Jr., Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, Baila H. Celedonia, Roger L. Zissu, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C., New York City, for appellants.

Robert Richards, Anthony B. Askew, Jones, Askew & Lunsford, Atlanta, GA, for Bellsouth Advertising.

John K. Roedel, Jr., Senniger, Powers, Leavitt & Roedel, St. Louis, MO, for amicus ANADP.

Robert E. Marsh, Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi, Kansas City, MO, for amicus — US WEST.

Robert Alan Garrett, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, for amicus Bell Atlantic.

Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, FAY, HATCHETT, EDMONDSON, BIRCH, BLACK and CARNES, Circuit Judges.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

I. INTRODUCTION

In this appeal, we must decide whether acts of copying infringed the compilation copyright registered in a "yellow pages" classified business directory. The parties have stipulated that the directory, which is a typical yellow pages directory, qualifies for compilation copyright protection. Thus, we are called upon to apply Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340...

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