Video Views, Inc. v. Studio 21, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
925 F.2d 1010 · 1991
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Fogerty Fantasy Inc (1994), Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc. v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (1993)
21 federal appellate · 8 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. § 201 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 501 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 504 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976) · 17 U.S.C. § 505 (§ 101 of the Copyright Act of 1976)
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Lorillard v. Pons · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Curtis v. Loether
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Except as provided by clause (2) of this subsection, the copyright owner may elect, at any time before final judgment is rendered, to recover, instead of actual damages and profits, an award of statutory damages for all infringements involved in the action, with respect to any one work, . . . in a sum of not less than $500 or more than $20,000 as the court considers just . . . . '' 7”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Increased statutory damages may be necessary in a particular case to prove that it 'costs less to obey the copyright laws than to violate them.' " Id. (quoting International Korwin Corp., 855 F.2d at 383). See Video Views, 925 F.2d at 1021 ("[O]ne who undertakes a course of infringing conduct may neither sneer in the face of the copyright owner nor hide its head in the sand like an ostrich.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]vidence that notice had been accorded to the alleged infringer before the specific acts found to have constituted infringement occurred is perhaps the most persuasive evidence of willfulness.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.