Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center

Copyright and Fair Use Cases

Date	Court	Judge
July 24, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	Thomas
Fox Broadcasting Co. v. Dish Network 12-57048
July 17, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit	Manion
Hobbs v. John 12-3652
July 17, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit	Manion
Hobbs v. John 12-3652
July 17, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit	Duncan
Metropolitan Regional Info. Sys. v. American Home Realty Network 12-2102
July 1, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit	Per curiam
The Authors Guild Inc., et al. v. Google, Inc. 12-3200
June 25, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit	Howard
Sony BMG Music Entm’t v. Tenenbaum 12-2146
June 11, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit	Chin
Gary Friedrich Enters., LLC v. Marvel Characters, Inc. 12-893
May 30, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	Zouhary
Classic Concepts, Inc. v. Linen Source, Inc. 07-56870
May 21, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit	O'Brien
Enterprise Management Limited, Inc. v. Warrick 12-1135
May 9, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	Clifton
Righthaven LLC v. Hoehn 11-16751
May 1, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit	Suhrheinrich
Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Smith 12-1523
April 25, 2013	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit	Parker
Cariou v. Prince 11-1197
November 20, 2012	U.S. District Court Minnesota District	Davis
Virgin Records America, Inc v. Thomas 0:2006cv01497
January 16, 2009	U.S. District Court Texas Northern District	Fitzwater
Chang v. Virgin Mobile, Creative Commons Corporation 3:2007cv01767
August 30, 2007	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Greenberg v. National Geographic Society 05-16964
May 16, 2007	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	A Howard Matz
Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc. 487 F.3d 701
July 13, 2006	U.S. District Court Oklahoma Western District	Lee R. West
Capitol Records, Inc. v. Foster 5:2004cv01569
May 9, 2006	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Bill Graham Archives v. Dorling Kindersley Limited, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, and RR Donnelley & Sons Company 448 F.3d 605
January 12, 2006	U.S. District Court Nevada District	Robert C. Jones
Field v. Google, Inc. 2:2004cv00413
July 7, 2003	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp. 336 F.3d 811
March 25, 2002	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	BEEZER
A&M Records v. Napster 284 F.3d 1091
June 25, 2001	U.S. Supreme Court	Ginsburg
New York Times Co., Inc. v. Tasini 533 U.S. 483
May 19, 1997	U.S. District Court New York Southern District	Martin
Matthew Bender v. West Publishing 94 Civ. 0589
November 21, 1995	U.S. District Court California Northern District
Religious Technology Center v. Netcom 907 F. Supp. 1361
February 1, 1994	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
National Rifle Ass’n of America v. Handgun Control Fed’n 15 F.3d 559
August 27, 1992	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Los Angeles News Service v. Tullo 973 F.2d 791
March 28, 1991	U.S. District Court New York Southern District	Constance Baker Motley
Basic Books, Inc. v. Kinko’s Graphics Corp. 758 F. Supp. 1522
March 19, 1991	U.S. Supreme Court	Scalia
W. Va. Univ. Hosps. v. Casey 499 U.S. 83
April 24, 1990	U.S. Supreme Court	O'Connor
Stewart v. Abend 495 U.S. 207
May 4, 1987	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Salinger v. Random House and Ian Hamilton 811 F.2d 90
March 20, 1987	U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	Edwards
International Bhd. of Elec. Workers v. NLRB 814 F.2d 697
October 15, 1986	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Maxtone-Graham v. Burtchaell 803 F.2d 1253
March 10, 1983	U.S. District Court New York Western District	Curtin
Encyclopedia Britannica Educ. Corp. v. Crooks 58 F. Supp. 1247
January 6, 1983	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Marcus v. Rowley 695 F.2d 1171
June 17, 1975	U.S. Supreme Court	Stewart
Twentieth Century Music Corp. v. Aiken 422 U.S. 151
February 25, 1975	U.S. Supreme Court
Williams & Wilkins Co. v. United States 420 U.S. 376
March 4, 1974	U.S. Supreme Court	Stewart
Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting 415 U.S. 394
1973	United States Court of Claims
Williams & Wilkins Company v. The United States 487 F.2d 1345
March 8, 1954	U.S. Supreme Court
Mazer v. Stein 347 U.S. 201
December 22, 1952	U.S. Supreme Court
F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Contemporary Arts, Inc. 344 U.S. 228
December 23, 1918	U.S. Supreme Court
International News Service v. Associated Press 248 U.S. 215
1914	U.S. District Court Massachusetts District	Dodge
MacMillan Co. v. King 223 F. 862
1903	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Edward Thomson Co. v. American Lawbook Co. 122 F. 922
February 2, 1903	U.S. Supreme Court
Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. 188 U.S. 239
1897
West Pub. Co. v. Lawyers’ Co-operative Pub. Co. 79 F. 756
1869	Massachusetts Circuit Court
Laurence v. Dana 15 F. Cas. 26
1853
Stowe v. Thomas 23 F. Cas. 201
1845	Massachusetts Circuit Court
Emerson v. Davies 8 F. Cas. 615
1841	Massachusetts Circuit Court
Folsom v. Marsh 9 F. Cas. 342
1834	U.S. Supreme Court
Wheaton v. Peters 33 U.S. 591