Jonathan Tasini’s Empirical Analysis

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5 district · 2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the fact that a party has licensed certain rights to its copyright to another party does not prohibit the licensor from bringing an infringement action where it believes the license is exceeded or the agreement breached ... [A]n infringement claim may be brought to remedy unauthorized uses of copyrighted material. (internal citations omitted). Whit-ford did not, therefore, have the burden of pleading a contract claim against Time.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 268 F. Supp. 2d 358 - Greenfield v. Twin Vision Graphics, Inc.

2. “Section 201(c) grants collective works authors `only' a `privilege' rather than a `right.' Each of these terms connotes specialized legal meanings, and they were juxtaposed by Congress in the same sentence of Section 201(c).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Greenberg v. National Geographic Soc.

3. “[w]ere the permissible uses under Section 201(c) as broad and as transferable as [publishers] contend, it is not clear that the rights retained by the [a]uthors could be considered `exclusive' in any meaningful sense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Greenberg v. National Geographic Soc.