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A copyright law blog covering litigation, policy and academia

US Supreme Court Copyright Cases

Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003)

Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, 523 U.S. 340 (1998)

Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994)

Feist Publications, Inc v. Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc., 499 U.S. 340 (1991)

Stewart v. Abend, 495 U.S. 207 (1990)

Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid, 490 U.S. 730 (1989)

Dowling v. United States, 437 U.S. 207 (1985)

Capital Cities Cable, Inc. v. Crisp, 467 U.S. 691 (1984)

Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984)

Broadcast Music Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 441 U.S. 1 (1979)

Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Company, 433 U.S. 562 (1977)

Twentieth Century Music Corporation v. Aiken, 422 U.S. 151 (1975)

Sears Roebuck and Co. v. Stiffel Company, 376 U.S. 225 (1964)

Loew’s, Inc. v. United States, 371 U.S. 38 (1962)

De Sylva v. Ballentine ,351 U.S. 570 (1956)

Paramount Pictures, Inc., et al. v. United States, 334 U.S. 131 (1948)

Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithography, Co., 188 U.S. 239 (1903)

Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. (8 Pet.) (1834)

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    Attorney Shourin Sen advises on a broad range of copyright trademark, licensing, trade secret, right of publicity, privacy, corporate representation and litigation matters. Prior to opening his firm, Mr. Sen worked on intellectual property and general corporate issues at an academic publishing house. In 2006, Mr. Sen was a Legal Intern for Chief Judge Khalida Rachid Kahn at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Mr. Sen performed bass and taught music before he entered law.
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    • IndLaw [One method is to search for "copyright" from 2000-2010, sort the results by most recent, and then find the cases on the court dockets. Lexadin provides a pointer to a number of dockets under "Jurisprudence."]
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    • The LAWPHiL Project, Arellano Law Foundation Cases are posted about two months after being issued. The hits marked "G.R. No . . ." are copyright cases.
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    • Singapore Law Watch [Recent decisions labeled by subject matter; you can use CRTL+F to skip to the copyright cases.]
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    • BAILII UK Database [Copyright decisions from the last month sorted by relevance; cases with over 7% relevance are usually copyright cases. Contains decisions from England and Whales, Ireland, Scotland, and the ECJ.]
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      • SSRN Copyright Search – Bamboozled? Anatomy of a Bankruptcy: Baystate v. Bowers and its Aftermath, by George W. Kuney
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      • SSRN Copyright Search – Questioning the Frequency and Wisdom of Compulsory Licensing for Pharmaceutical Patents, by Richard A. Epstein
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