FYI - the Texaco case is American Geophysical Union et al. v Texaco (60
F3d913, 2d Cir. 1995; 144 ALR Fed 745)
Don Oswalt, MLS
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On Sep 10, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Karen Mahnk wrote:
> I think it may have been the Texaco case - engineers routed the same
> subscription by copies rather than individual subscriptions - it was a
> journal (Elsevier I *think) - Texaco was definitely the defendent.
> The, issue was fair use if I recall. Texaco believing it had fair use
> since they bought a subscription - they lost.
> Another case I recall was BNA vs. a law firm (Washington I think) -
> for copying one of their Weekly pubs.
> & distributing to firm attys.
> Texaco was the landmark however & after that, firms backed off
> w/ newsletter copying. BNA started offering multiple options on the
> summary portion of their weeklys to purchase w/ the main
> subscription..
> Karen
>
>
> On 9/10/07, Devlin, Kelly A. <kdevlin@haslaw.com> wrote: Could you be
> referring to the Legg-Mason case?
> http://baltimore.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2003/10/06/
> daily5.html
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>> From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu]
>> On Behalf Of Michelle I. Mitchell
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>> A law firm was sued several years ago for violating copyright law
>> when they copied publications they bought and lost - it might have
>> been an engineering firm. I am at a different law firm so I don't
>> have access to the information now but I need it. Does anyone
>> remember this case?
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