464 U.S. 417 (1984) Cited 967 times 27 Legal Analyses
Holding identical copying of videotapes under unique circumstances of case “[did] not have its ordinary effect of militating against a finding of fair use”
Holding sanctions under Rule 37 are intended to "ensure that a party will not benefit from its own failure to comply" and "to serve a general deterrent effect on the case at hand and on other litigation, provided that the party against whom they are imposed was in some sense at fault"
Holding that the defendants waived their objection to the imposition of statutory penalties on the basis of contributory infringement by not raising the objection in their proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law post-trial; and (b) "calculat[ing] statutory damages on the basis of [contributory] infringement" in this same filing
Holding that each wedding photo on a disk is a separate "work" and the set of photos is not a "compilation" because each photo "has an independent economic value"
Holding that a defendant copy shop's reproduction of excerpts of copyrighted works was a commercial use that placed the burden on the defendant to show that its activities constituted fair use, and that all four statutory factors weighed against a finding that they did
17 U.S.C. § 106 Cited 3,745 times 107 Legal Analyses
Granting the owners of copyrights in “literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works” the exclusive right “to display the copyrighted work publicly”