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Kenneth W. Starr had been addressing the 11th Circuit en banc for less than a minute when a judge interrupted, saying, "Mr. Starr, we're familiar with the facts. Let's get to the heart of things." Starr is representing the National Geographic Society in a battle to market its magazine archive as a CD-ROM library without paying freelancers royalties. While the case's facts may be known, courts have long wrestled with how to apply a 1976 copyright law to a medium that Congress couldn't have then imagined.