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FAULKNER v. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOC.

No. 97 Civ. 9361(LAK), 99 Civ. 12488(LAK), 02 Civ. 12385(LAK).

452 F.Supp.2d 369 (2006)

Douglas FAULKNER, et al., Plaintiffs, v. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, et al., Defendants. Fred WARD, et ano., Plaintiffs, v. The National Geographic Society, et al., Defendants. David Hiser, et al., Plaintiffs, v. National Geographic Society, et al., Defendants.

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

September 18, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Danial Alan Nelson, Schaden, Katzman, Lampert & McClune, for Plaintiffs Louis Psihoyos, Rick Rickman, David Austen and Matrix Intl, Inc.

Stephen A. Weingrad, William D. Gardner, Weingrad & Weingrad, LLP, for Plaintiffs David Allen, A. Allen, Douglas Faulkner, Sally Faulkner, Doranne Jacobsen, Jerome Jacobsen, Pamela Wilson Sartorelli, Jon Krakauer, Richard Coniff, Elizabeth Royte, John Knoebber, and Joe Baraban.

Andrew Berger, Tannenbaum, Helpern, Syracuse & Hirschtritt, LLP, for Plaintiff Fred Ward.

Robert G. Sugarman, Denise Alvarez, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Terrence B. Adamson, National Geographic Society, for Defendant National Geographic Society.

OPINION

KAPLAN, Judge.

The plaintiffs in these three actions are freelance photographers and writers whose work has been published in National Geographic Magazine (the "Magazine"). The essence of their claim is that they granted National Geographic Society ("NGS") limited rights to publish their works in the Magazine and tiiat NGS and the other the defendants infringed their intellectual property and contract rights by republishing their...

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