Perfect Inc v. Amazoncom Inc’s Empirical Analysis

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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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly;”

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

2. “to the public, by means of any device or process, whether the members of the public capable of receiving the performance or display receive it in the same place or in separate places and at the same time or at different times.”

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

3. “In sum, based on the plain language of the statute, a person displays a photographic image by using a computer to fill a computer screen with a copy of the photographic image fixed in the computer's memory.”

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