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Regents Guide to Understanding Copyright & Educational Fair Use

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  1. Dowling v. United States, 473 U.S. 207, 216-17 (1985).
  2. See Part IV-C, Copyright Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, for cases so holding.
  3. Bobbs-Merrill v. Straus, 210 U.S. 339 (1908).
  4. 17 U.S.C. Sec. 501(a).
  5. "While the law has never recognized an author's right to absolute control of his work, the natural tendency of legal rights to express themselves in absolute terms to the exclusion of all else is particularly pronounced in the history of the constitutionally sanctioned monopolies of the copyright and the patent." Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417, 432n. 13. (1984).
  6. Feist Publications Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340, 349 (1991).
  7. Campbell v. Acuff-Rose, 510 U.S. 569, 577 (1994) (the fair use doctrine "calls for case-by-case analysis").
  8. Stephens v. Cady, 55 U.S. 528, 530 (1852).
  9. Eaton S. Drone, The Law of Property in Intellectual Productions (Drone on Copyright) 386 (1879).
  10. Folsom v. Marsh, 9 Fed. Cases 342, 348 (No. 4,901) (C.C.D. Mass. 1841).
  11. Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417 (1984).
  12. Stover v. Lathrop, 33 F. 348, 349 (C.C.D. Col. 1888) (emphasis added).
  13. 785 F. Supp. 1522 (S.D.N.Y. 1991).
  14. 99 F. 3d 1381 (6th Cir. 1996).
  15. 99 F. 3d at 1388.
  16. 99 F. 3d at 1393.
  17. 60 F. 3d 913 (2d Cir. 1995).
  18. 60 F. 3d at 916.
  19. H.R. Rep. No. 94-1476, 94th Cong. 2d Sess. 68-69 (1976).
  20. The copyright notice of the Association of American Publishers 1994 Industry Statistics reads in full as follows:

    c 1995 by Association of American Publishers,Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this report may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without express permission from the Association of American Publishers,Inc.,

  21. Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003-3004.
  22. Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340, 349 (1991).
  23. Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc., 510 U.S. 517, 526 (1994).
  24. Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417, 432 (1984).
  25. Twentieth Century Music Corp. v. Aiken, 422 U.S. 151, 156 (1975).
  26. Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., 499 U.S. 340, 349 (1991).
  27. 101 U.S. 99 (1880).

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