A Nebraska federal jury’s award of over $11 million in a copyright dispute based on a database of business information was affirmed by the Eighth Circuit said Monday.
The jury wasn’t wrong in finding that Infogroup Inc.'s database was copyright eligible because it required at least a minimal degree of creativity, the appeals court said.
Infogroup’s founder Vinod Gupta left the company and formed DatabaseUSA, which also compiled a business information database. Infogroup sued DatabaseUSA for copyright infringement for copying its database, and sued Gupta for breaching a separation agreement. A jury awarded Infogroup $11.2 million against DatabaseUSA and $10 ...
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