Munson Steamship Line v. Steam Tug Helmsman

How courts have described this case

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• observing that the Supreme Court in Campbell omitted mention of the fourth factor’s primacy and instructed that all factors are tó be explored
• stating that fair use claim will not be sustained when secondary use can fairly be characterized as “commercial exploitation” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that courts are less likely to find unfair commercial exploitation where the secondary use “produces a value that benefits the broader public interest”
• finding no fair use even though photocopying to facilitate “research in the sciences ... might well serve a broader public purpose.”
• treating individual articles in a journal as discrete works of authorship for purposes of third factor analysis
• treating individual articles in a journal as discrete works of authorship for purposes of third factor analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).