Waters v. Saha

How courts have described this case

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

• finding no fair use despite concluding that the defendants’ technology “serve[d] a transformative purpose,” in part because the technology “usurped a function for which [the plaintiff was] entitled to demand compensation under a licensing agreement”
• “[A] use of copyrighted material that merely repackages or republishes the original is unlikely to be deemed a fair use.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting “the transformative purpose of en- hancing efficiency”
• describing transformativeness as the “primary inquiry”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).