Greene v. Ablon’s Empirical Analysis
794 F.3d 133 · 2015
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4 district ·
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Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1063 (§ 13 of the Trademark Act of 1946 (Lanham Act)) · 17 U.S.C. § 101 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 102 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 103 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 107 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 201 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 502 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 504 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do have the fact here that an author of the joint work ... is also the author of the relevant preexisting work ... However, that coincidence does not affect the contours of the ... copyright, nor does it upset the joint ownership arrangement described above. [A work] may be both joint and derivative, with [an author] alone owning the copyright in the underlying work ... and co-owning the copyright in the derivative work with [another].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oliver v. Johanson“[t]he copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished from the preexisting material employed in the work.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oliver v. Johanson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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