Graham v. James

How courts have described this case

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

• “A copyright owner who grants a nonexclusive license to use his copyrighted material waives his right to sue the licensee for copyright infringement.”
• “A copyright owner who grants a nonexclusive license to use his copyrighted material waives his right to sue the licensee for copyright infringement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

55 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Spinelli v. National Football League
  Second Circuit· 2018-09-11· cited 222×
• 16 Casa Duse, LLC v. Merkin
  Second Circuit· 2015-06-29· cited 115×
• Horror Inc. v. Miller
  Second Circuit· 2021-09-30· cited 114×
• MPAY Inc. v. Erie Custom Computer
  Eighth Circuit· 2020-08-14· cited 78×
• Sohm v. Scholastic Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2020-05-12· cited 73×
• LiButti v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1999-05-28· cited 67×
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. DRK Photo
  Second Circuit· 2018-02-16· cited 42×
• Yamashita v. Scholastic Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2019-08-28· cited 41×
• Cargo Partner AG v. Albatrans Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2002-03-13· cited 38×
• Small Business Bodyguard Inc. v. House of Moxie, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2017-01-31· cited 23×
• Ulloa v. Universal Music and Video Distribution Corp.
  S.D. New York· 2004-01-14· cited 21×
• Lewis v. Blackman Plumbing Supply L.L.C.
  S.D. New York· 2014-09-29· cited 21×
• Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Mortensen
  Second Circuit· 2010-05-11· cited 20×
• Kamfar v. New World Restaurant Group, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 2004-12-09· cited 20×
• Atlantis Information Technology, Gmbh v. Ca, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 2007-04-30· cited 17×
• Greystone Community Reinvestment Ass'n v. Berean Capital, Inc.
  D. Connecticut· 2009-07-29· cited 17×
• Madison River Management Co. v. Business Management Software Corp.
  M.D. North Carolina· 2005-08-31· cited 15×
• TVT Records v. The Island Def Jam Music Group
  Second Circuit· 2005-06-14· cited 15×
• Netbula, LLC v. BindView Development Corp.
  N.D. California· 2007-09-10· cited 14×
• Bitmanagement Software Gmbh v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 2021-02-25· cited 13×

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-05· cited 1,141×
• Paddington Partners v. Jean-Louis Bouchard, Herbert A. Denton, Econocom Finance Nv Econocom International N v. Jeffries & Company, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1994-08-22· cited 608×
• Schumacher v. Richards Shear Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-06-14· cited 271×
• I.A.E., Inc. v. Shaver
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-01-17· cited 198×
• Goodrich v. Betkoski
  First Circuit· 1996-11-01· cited 171×
• Septembertide Publishing, B.V. v. Stein And Day, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1989-09-01· cited 131×
• Kip Rano v. Sipa Press, Inc., Sipa, Inc., Goskin Sipahioglu, Sipa
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-03-24· cited 130×
• Bourne v. Walt Disney Co.
  Second Circuit· 1995-10-18· cited 127×
• Irene Bartsch v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1968-02-16· cited 104×
• Graham v. James
  Second Circuit· 1998-05-18· cited 102×
• Clifford Scott Aymes v. Jonathan Bonelli, Doing Business as Island Swimming Sales, Inc. And Island Recreational
  Second Circuit· 1992-12-02· cited 99×
• Business Trends Analysts, Inc. v. The Freedonia Group, Inc. And the Freedonia Group, Incorporated
  Second Circuit· 1989-10-05· cited 80×
• Ladjevardian v. Laidlaw-Coggeshall, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1977-05-12· cited 77×
• Costello Publishing Co. v. John E. Rotelle, O. S. A. Costello Publishing Co., Inc. v. John E. Rotelle, O. S. A., Episcopal Conference of Australia
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-12-16· cited 76×
• Bruce Adams, Individually and D/B/A Southwest Safaris v. Lindblad Travel, Inc., Special Expeditions, Inc., and Sven-Olof Lindblad
  Second Circuit· 1984-03-08· cited 71×
• Fantastic Fakes, Inc. v. Pickwick International, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-11-16· cited 53×
• Jacob Maxwell, Inc. v. Veeck
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-04-18· cited 48×
• Abeshouse v. Ultragraphics, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1985-02-07· cited 45×
• Armour & Co. v. Celic
  Second Circuit· 1961-09-06· cited 31×
• In re Melka Marine, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-03· cited 31×