Golan v. Gonzales

by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

501 F.3d 1179

LAWRENCE GOLAN; ESTATE OF RICHARD KAPP; S.A. PUBLISHING CO, IN C., d/b/a ESS.A.Y. RECORDINGS; SYMPHONY OF THE CANYONS; RON HALL d/b/a FESTIVAL FILMS; and JOHN McDONOUGH, d/b/a TIM ELESS VIDEO ALTERNATIVES INTERNATIONAL, Plaintiffs-Appellants

v.

ALBERTO R. GONZALES, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States; and MARYBETH PETERS, Register of Copyrights, Copyright Office of the United States, Defendants-Appellees

No. 05-1259

United States Court of Appeals,
Tenth Circuit.

September 4, 2007

Appeal from the United States District Court

for the District of Colorado

(D.C. No. 1:01-cv-01854 LTB-BNB)

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Lawrence Lessig, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School, Stanford California (Hugh Q. Gottschalk and Carolyn J. Fairless, Wheeler Trigg Kennedy LLP, Denver, Colorado, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

John S. Koppel, Appellate Staff Civil Division (Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, William J. Leone, United States Attorney, and William Kanter, Appellate Staff Civil Division, Washington, D.C., with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Eric M. Lieberman and David B. Goldstein, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., New York, New York, filed an Amicus Curiae brief in support of Defendants-Appellees.

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Before HENRY, BRISCOE, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

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