Re:Another shining example of what copyrigh laws d (Score 1)

The only flaw in that statement is that once you buy ONE magazine, it does not entitle you to grab any additional magazines without paying for them.

There may be *some* but for the most part, the vast majority of magazines do not give you the printed magazine AND the digital/cd version of their magazine without some additional charge. I have seen cases where it is one or the other but not both.

Is it a new work?

If it were just the ONE magazine being placed on cd with a search engine and being available in lieu of the printed magazine ... I would side with the judge.

I could see it being a new work *IF* it were a NG BEST OF or something of that nature AND in this case the CD *does* differ in that it "reproduces back issues of National Geographic page-by-page" which sounds like a compilation. In order to produce the compilation in printed format they would definitely have to produce a new work. I don't know if a compilation comes under the legal definition of a "revision." I don't see how it could be a revision when the original never contained the other issues ;)

IANAL ...but I know of someone who plays one on TV.