Consumers Union of United States, Inc. v. General Signal Corp. And Grey Advertising, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that some infringement actions involve copying of creative expression for “purpose of having that precise form of expression advance someone else’s commercial interests—for example, using well-known copyrighted lines to attract attention to an advertisement”
• finding parody of copyrighted song not privileged as fair use

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).