ITAR-TASS RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCY v. RUSSIAN KURIER, INC.

Docket No. 97-7498.

153 F.3d 82 (1998)

ITAR-TASS RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCY; Itar-Tass USA, and Fromer & Associates, Inc., Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees, Argumenty I Fakty; Moskowskie Novosti Komsomolskaya Pravda; Union of Journalists of Russia; Ekho Planety; Megapolis Express; Balagan Israelicomic Magazine; Moskowsky Komsomolets; AR Publishing Co., Inc. and Yevgen I. Fromer, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. RUSSIAN KURIER, INC., Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant, Oleg Pogrebnoy, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel K. Bohmart, Bohmart & Sacks, New York City, for appellants.

Robert J. Berman, Hackensack, N.J., for appellee Fromer and Associates.

Julian Lowenfeld, New York City, for remaining appellees.

(Professor William F. Patry, Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York City, submitted a brief as amicus curiae, by appointment of the Court).

Before: FEINBERG, NEWMAN, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal primarily presents issues concerning the choice of law in international copyright cases and the substantive meaning of Russian copyright law as to the respective rights of newspaper reporters and newspaper publishers. The conflicts issue is which country's law applies to issues of copyright ownership and to issues of infringement. The primary substantive issue under Russian copyright law is whether a newspaper publishing company...

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