National Geographic Case

On March 4th, 2005, the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit issued an opinion in the legal case Faulkner v. National Geographic Society. The issues raised in this case have important ramifications for digitization efforts in the scholarly community. JSTOR submitted a friend of the court brief to help educate the Court on how these issues are relevant to our community and the desirability of a particular outcome in the case. Approximately thirty organizations signed on to the JSTOR brief.

Read more: Circuit opinion, a summary of the opinion, and the JSTOR Friend of the Court brief.

Last updated on September 8, 2006