Wilson v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 507

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Rule 12(d)’s procedure allowing district courts to consider matters outside the pleadings “may be appropriate in certain copyright infringement actions where discovery is unnecessary to resolve a motion to dismiss”
• explaining, in copyright case, that there must be a “nexus” between the illegally derived “profits” and the alleged “infringement”
• describing transformativeness as whether “the allegedly offending use of the original work” alters the first work “with new expression, meaning, or message”
• describing transformativeness as whether “the allegedly offending use of the original work . . . alters the first work with new expression, meaning, or message” (cleaned up)
• rejecting fair use defense where the secondary work “simply reproduce[d] the entirety of [the original]” so that the “unobstructed and unaltered” original remained “the dominant image in [the secondary work]”
• “To incentivize prompt copyright registration, the Copyright Act makes registration a condition precedent for recovering both statutory damages and attorneys’ fees.”

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