Agee v. Paramount Communications, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 317 · 1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Murray Hill Publications, Inc. v. ABC Communications, Inc. (2001), Agee L&h v. Paramount Communications Inc Tv II (1997)
8 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 17 U.S.C. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 106 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 112 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 114 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Bates v. State Bar · Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc · Ford Motor Co. v. Summit Motor Products, Inc. · PPX Enterprises, Inc. v. Audiofidelity Enterprises, Inc. · Twin Peaks Productions, Inc. v. Publications International, Ltd.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has alleged no facts suggesting that [defendant] “deliberately engaged in a deceptive commercial practice” designed to deceive the public as to the source of the product. [Where] [t]here is no allegation that [defendant] intentionally used [plaintiffs work] to deceive the public, nor is there any factual allegation that the public was in any way confused as to the source of the [work] as a result of [defendant’s] failure to attribute that [work] to [plaintiff] ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Publication” is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer or ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorec-ords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display, constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]ubject to sections 107 through 120, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.