Met-Wood Products Corp. v. Sparks-Withington Co.

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• holding that a software company’s conduct in scraping and aggregating copyrighted news articles was not protected by fair use
• dismissing equitable estoppel defense where \the evidence submitted on these motions also indicates that Meltwater was on notice of the risk it ran of being sued by AP for 56 copyright infringement\
• “Meltwater has offered no evidence of any relationship or communication with AP that imposed upon AP the duty to speak.”
• a party cannot rely on silence “[i]n the absence of a duty to speak”
• “Where a defendant did not gain ‘direct or immediate commercial advantage’ from the copying, its status as a for-profit enterprise is less relevant.” (quoting Am. Geophysical Union, 60 F.3d at 921)

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