Marvin Fisher D/B/A Marvin Music Company and Jack Segal v. Rick Dees, Atlantic Recording Corporation, Warner Communications, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “infringement occurs when a parody supplants the original in markets the original is aimed at, or in which the original is, or has reasonable potential to become, commercially valuable”
• finding fair 3 use where the operative facts were undisputed or assumed
• \Self-esteem is seldom strong enough to permit the granting of permission even in exchange for a reasonable fee\
• “As a rule, a taking is considered de minimis only if it is so meager and fragmentary that the average audience would not recognize the appropriation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).