And remember that the late 1980s- early 1990s Collier Shannon cover to
cover copying of a newsletter ( not BNA but another Washington DC
publisher) settled out of court of a reported 6 figures. The settlement
is sealed
Lucy
Lucy Curci-Gonzalez / Director of Library Services ext. 6122
NYO Library 10th Floor
E-mail mailto:lcurcigonzalez@kenyon.com
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
Behalf Of Weyant, Gregory
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 2:28 PM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: Copyright lawsuit - Another
This story (linked below) might be a really useful anecdote if you're
trying to get the point across to your patrons. $300,000 settlement for
distributing copied articles to new employees but the kicker is than an
anonymous tipster was awarded $6,000 for blowing the whistle. Tell them
that even if you're doing this on a small scale in-house basis, there
could be people watching who would benefit financially from dropping
dime on an abusing employer .
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/16/Firm-settles-internal-copyrigh
t-complaint_1.html
Greg Weyant
Library Director
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP
One Penn Center
1617 JFK Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Ph (215) 665-3181
Fax (215) 665-3165
e-mail: gregory.weyant@obermayer.com
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
Behalf Of Nina Platt
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 2:10 PM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: Copyright lawsuit
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
Nina Platt
Principal/Consultant
Nina Platt Consulting Inc.
W: 612-280-4204
Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ninaplatt
http://www.strategiclibrarian.com <http://www.strategiclibrarian.com/>
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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.htm
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu
<mailto: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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