Greenberg v. National Geographic Society’s Empirical Analysis

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14 federal appellate ·

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... the publisher could not revise the contribution itself or include it in a new anthology or entirely different magazine or other collective work.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Greenberg v. National Geographic Society · Greenberg v. National Geographic Society

2. “Assuming arguendo, but expressly not deciding, that 201(c)’s revision privilege embraces the entirety of the Replica portion of the CNG (the 1,200 issues, as opposed to each separate issue of the Magazine), we are unable to stretch the phrase “that particular collective work” to encompass the Sequence and Program elements as well. ... [T]he CNG is an “other collective work” composed of the Sequence, the Replica, and the Program.... [T]he Society, in collaboration with Mindscape, has created a new product (“an original work of authorship”), in a new medium, for a new market that far transcends any privilege of revision or other mere reproduction envisioned in § 201(c).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Faulkner v. National Geographic Enterprises Inc. · Faulkner v. National Geographic Enterprises Inc.

3. “a work, such as a periodical issue, anthology, or encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective whole.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Greenberg v. National Geographic Society · Greenberg v. National Geographic Soc.