VEECK v. SOUTHERN BLDG. CODE CONGRESS INTERN. INC.

No. 99-40632.

241 F.3d 398 (2001)

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.

February 2, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric P. Weisberg (argued), Weisberg Law Office, Denison, TX, for Veeck.

Robert J. Veal (argued), Burr & Forman, Kenneth M. Bush, Veal & Associates, Birmingham, AL, for Southern Bldg. Code Congress Intern. Inc.

Michael Lowenberg, Patrick F. McGowan, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, TX, for American Medical Ass'n, American Nat. Standards Institute(ANSI), American Society of Ass'n Executives (ASAE), American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Nat. Fire Protection Ass'n (NFPA), Texas Municipal League and Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), Amicus Curiae.

Malla Pollack (argued), DeKalb, IL, pro se.

Karen Bryant Tripp, Houston, TX, Andrew Schlafly, New York City, for Ass'n of American Physicians & Surgeons, Inc., Amicus Curiae.

Before WIENER and STEWART, Circuit Judges, and LITTLE, District Judge.


WIENER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-Appellant Peter Veeck ("Veeck") appeals from a summary judgment of the district court holding that he infringed the copyright of Defendant-Appellee Southern Building Code Congress International ("SBCCI") when he posted SBCCI's copyrighted model codes on the Internet without SBCCI's permission. Agreeing with the district court, we affirm.

I.

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