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Categories of Key Court Case Summaries on Fair Use
Copying
for Education
• Basic Books, Inc. v. Kinko’s
Graphics Corp.– Copying material from books for use in coursepacks
• Princeton University Press v.
Michigan Document Services, Inc. – Copying material from books
for use in coursepacks
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational
Corp. v. Crooks – Recording television programs for use in
classroom
Copying
for Research
• American Geophysical Union v.
Texaco Inc. – Photocopying of scholarly articles by corporation
for use in research (holding does not extend to independent researchers
• Sundeman v. The Seajay Society,
Inc. – Use of quoted material in oral presentation
Copying
for Websites & Public Dissemination
• Los Angeles Times v. Free Republic
– Full newspaper articles posted on internet
• Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. v.
Comline Business Data, Inc. – Newspaper translated Japanese
articles into English and disseminated abstracts
• Nunez v. Caribbean International
News, Corp. – Newspaper published controversial photograph
Internet
& Website Development
• Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp.
– Internet search engine copied photographs from the web for use
as thumbnails
• Los Angeles Times v. Free Republic
– Posting full newspaper articles on bulletin board website
Multimedia
Production
• Higgins v. Detroit Educational
Television Foundation – Use of music in educational video
for public television
Preparation of Publications
• Castle Rock Entertainment,
Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group, Inc. – Trivia book created
based on popular television show
• Maxtone-Graham v. Burtchaell
– Use of excerpts from out-of-print book in new work
• Worldwide Church of God v. Philadelphia
Church of God – Re-printing entire copy of out-of-print work
Uses
of Photographs
• Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp.
– Photos copied off web for use as thumbnails
• Nunez v. Caribbean International
News, Corp. – Controversial photos published by newspaper
without permission
• Tiffany Design, Inc. v. Reno-Tahoe
Specialty, Inc. – Photograph digitally scanned and elements
inserted into new photograph
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