92 F. Supp. 2d 349 - UMG Recordings, Inc. v. MP3. Com, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 107 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 114 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Scharffe v. Perkins · Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises · Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios Inc · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any allegedly positive impact of defendant's activities on plaintiffs' prior market in no way frees defendant to usurp a further market that directly derives from reproduction of the plaintiffs' copyrighted works.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]opyright, however, is not designed to afford consumer protection or convenience but, rather, to protect the copyrighters' property interests.... Stripped to its essence, defendant's `consumer protection' argument amounts to nothing more than a bald claim that defendant should be able to misappropriate plaintiffs' property simply because there is a consumer demand for it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A [copyright holder's] 'exclusive' rights, derived from the Constitution and the Copyright Act, include the right, within broad limits, to curb the development of such a derivative market by refusing to license a copyrighted work or by doing so only on terms the copyright owner finds acceptable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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