Supreme Court Turns Away Copyright Dispute Over Seismic Data

Mealey's (May 27, 2020, 12:18 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its May 26 orders list, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will not review a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that a Texas company possessed an implied copyright license to use a Canadian company’s decades-old seismic data (Geophysical Service Inc. v. TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co., No. 19-873, U.S. Sup.)....