Freeman v. Zahradnick

How courts have described this case

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• book about Twin Peaks television series that discusses show’s popularity, characters, actors, plots, creator, music, and poses trivia questions about show held not to be fair use
• \the author of ’Twin Peaks’ cannot preserve for itself the entire field of publishable works that wish to cash in on the ’Twin Peaks’ phenomenon\
• “A comment is as eligible for fair use protection when it concerns ‘Masterpiece Theater’ and appears in the New York Review of Books as when it concerns ‘As the World Turns’ and appears in Soap Opera Digest.”
• second factor “favor[s] ... creative and fictional work”

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