District Court Judge Gary L. Sharpe, New York Federal District Court for the Northern District of New York, held that the publisher of a widely sold magazine containing thousands of classified ads had legal ownership of those ads for the purposes of asserting a copyright infringement claim under the Federal Copyright Act. The publisher, represented by Salvatore D. Ferlazzo, Esq. and Robert F. Manfredo, Esq. of Girvin & Ferlazzo, brought suit against a competing company and the company’s owner for misappropriating classified ads from the publisher’s magazine and printing them in their own competing publication.
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