| Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress Int'l | |
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| Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit |
| Full case name | Peter Veeck, doing business as RegionalWeb v. Southern Building Code Congress International |
| Decided | June 7, 2002 |
| Citations | Panel opinion: 241 F.3d 398 En banc opinion: 293 F.3d 791 |
| Case history | |
| Prior history | 49 F. Supp. 2d 885 (E.D. Tex. 1999) |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | Panel: Jacques L. Wiener Jr., Carl E. Stewart, F.A. Little, Jr. (W.D. La.) En banc: Carolyn Dineen King, E. Grady Jolly, Patrick Higginbotham, W. Eugene Davis, Edith H. Jones, Jerry Edwin Smith, Wiener, Rhesa Barksdale, Emilio M. Garza, Harold R. DeMoss Jr., Fortunato Benavides, Stewart, Robert Manley Parker, James L. Dennis, Edith Brown Clement |
| Case opinions | |
| Majority | Panel: Wiener, joined by Stewart |
| Majority | En banc: Jones, joined by Jolly, Smith, Barksdale, Garza, DeMoss, Benavides, Parker, Clement |
| Dissent | Panel: Little |
| Dissent | En banc: Higginbotham, joined by King, Davis, Stewart |
| Dissent | En banc: Wiener, joined by King, Davis, Higginbotham, Stewart, Dennis |
| Laws applied | |
| Copyright Act of 1976 | |
Veeck v. Southern Bldg. Code Congress Int'l, Inc., 293 F.3d 791 (5th Cir. 2002) (en banc), was a 2002 en banc 9-6 decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, about the scope of copyright protection for building codes and by implication other privately drafted laws adopted by states and municipal governments.[1] A three-fifths majority of the court's fifteen judges held that copyright protection no longer applied to model codes once they were enacted into law.
- ^ Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress Int'l, Inc., 293 F.3d 791 (5th Cir. 2002) (en banc), cert. denied, 539 U.S. 969 (2003).