Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Texaco Inc. v. American Geophysical Union

Texaco Inc. v. Am. Geophysical Union, 516 U.S. 1005 (1995)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1995-12-04
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • noting that “were a court automatically to conclude in every case that potential licensing revenues were impermissibly impaired simply because the secondary user did not pay a fee for the right to engage in the use, the fourth fair use factor would always favor the copyright holder”
  • no fair use where scientists photocopied publication to avoid cost of purchasing additional copies from publisher

Citator

UpLaw has not yet analyzed Texaco Inc. v. American Geophysical Union. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.

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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari dismissed under this Court’s Rule 46.1.