UMG Recordings, Inc. v. MP3. Com, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that allegedly positive impact on plaintiffs’ prior market “in no way frees defendant to usurp a further market that directly derives from reproduction of [the] copyrighted works.”
• holding that downloads are not fair use even if the downloader already owns one purchased copy
• finding that reproduction of audio CD into MP3 format does not “transform” the work
• finding space-shifting of MP3 files not a fair use even when previous ownership is demonstrated before a download is allowed
• rejecting “space shift” of CD files to MP3 files as “another way of saying that the unauthorized copies are being retransmitted in another medium — an insufficient basis for any legitimate claim-of-transformation”
• considering the argument that space-shifting is transformative to be “simply another way of saying that the unauthorized copies are being retransmitted in another medium—an insufficient basis for any legitimate claim of transformation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).