Douglas FAULKNER, Louis Psihoyos, Matrix International, Inc., as agent for Roger Hutchings, Sarah Leen and Rick Rickman, Sally Faulkner, David Hiser, David G. Allen, as successor and interest to Arthur Allen, Richard Conniff, Jon Krakauer, John Knoebber, Elizabeth Royte, Joe Baraban, Pamela Wilson Sartorelli, Doranne Jacobson, Jerome Jacobson, David Robert Austin, and Fred Ward, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENTERPRISES INC., Dataware Technologies Inc., National Geographic Society, National Geographic Interactive, Eastman Kodak Co., and National Geographic Holdings, Inc., doing business as National Geographic Interactive, doing business as National Geographic Enterprises Inc., Defendants-Appellees.
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Argued: October 27, 2004.
Decided: March 4, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Danial A. Nelson, Schaden, Katzman, Lampert & McClune (John D. McClune, Troy, Michigan, on the brief), Broomfield, Colorado, for Psihoyos Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Andrew Berger, Tannenbaum, Helpern, Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, New York, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellant Ward.
Stephen A. Weingrad, Weingrad & Weingrad, LLP (William D. Gardner, on the brief), New York, New York, for Faulkner and Hiser Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Robert G. Sugarman, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (Pierre M. Davis, Denise Alvarez, on the brief) (Terrence B. Adamson, Angelo M. Grima, Karen-Kerley Shwartz, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., of counsel) (Kenneth W. Starr, Christopher Landau, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Washington, D.C., of counsel), New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees.
Victor S. Perlman, American Society of Media Photographers, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Amici Curiae American Society of Media Photographers, Inc., et al.
Surjit P. Soni, The Soni Law Firm, Pasadena, California, for Amici Curiae Plaintiffs in Auscape.
Joseph M. Beck, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP (Alex S. Fonoroff, on the brief) (Nancy A. Kopans, JSTOR, New York, New York, on the brief), Atlanta, Georgia, for Amici Curiae JSTOR, et al.
Arnold P. Lutzker, Lutzker, Lutzker & Settlemyer LLP (Carl H. Settlemyer, III, Allison L. Rapp, on the brief), Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae American Library Association, et al.
Charles S. Sims, Proskauer Rose LLP (Meredith R. Miller, on the brief), New York, New York, for Amici Curiae Advance Publications, Inc., et al.
Before: WINTER, KATZMANN, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
WINTER, Circuit Judge.
Appellants are freelance photographers and authors whose photographs and/or written works were originally published in various issues of the National Geographic Magazine. These photographs and writings have now been published in "The Complete National Geographic" ("CNG"), a digital collection of the past issues of the Magazine that offers users various means of searching, viewing, and displaying pages of these issues. Appellants and their representatives...
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