RE: Copyright lawsuit

From: Nina Platt (nplatt@ninaplatt.com)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2007 - 11:09:59 PDT


One more lawsuit to mention.

 

In 1999 Leboeuf Lamb settled out of court with four publishers and purchased
a license from the Copyright Clearance Center
[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FWE/is_5_6/ai_85880884]. That was
a widely known settlement since CCC used it to sell licenses after the fact
until Bob Oakley, AALL President in 2000, sent a letter to CCC voicing
concern over their marketing practices
[http://www.aallnet.org/aallwash/lt04042000.html].
<http://www.aallnet.org/aallwash/lt04042000.html> The harassment (I mean
marketing) slowed down at that point.

 

Today, CCC has a better approach then in the past.

 

Nina

 

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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf
Of Karen Mahnk
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:37 AM
To: Devlin, Kelly A.
Cc: Michelle I. Mitchell; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: Copyright lawsuit

 

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: <mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu>
owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Michelle I. Mitchell
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:57 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Copyright lawsuit

 

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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Michelle I. Mitchell
Library Manager
Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP
200 South Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 2500
Miami, Florida 33131-5340
www.bilzin.com <http://www.bilzin.com/>

Tel 305.351.2305
Fax 305.351.2268
MMitchell@bilzin.com

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