Practice Management Information Corp. v. American Medical Ass'n, 121 F.3d 516 (1997) p.776

SUBJECT

enforcement of copyright

FACTS

AMA has diesigned and published a detailed numerical code to enable physicians to identify particular medical procedures with precision. Congress established a federal health care agency that wanted to use the AMA system of coding. AMA granted a non exclusive, royalty free and irrevocable license to the federal agency. AMA denied Practice Management a request for a volume discount.

ISSUE

Whether the copyright was valid.

RATIONAL

HIs copyright was being used to restrain an authorized user. Held that this was a misuse.

Created on: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 at 20:46:39 (PST)