The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B. Cross; Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning US
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Case summary: The company C makes and trades in coursepacks that contain a compilation for college students. A teacher is involved in selecting the published readings and giving it to a copy shop to make copies of such material. The publishing company B which has the copyright to some of the readings has filed a copyright infringement claim against the company C.
To find:The violation of the copyright law if copying is limited to coursepacks, the exception of copying the material under fair use and the possibility of the court to grant the motion in favor of the defendant.
(b)
Summary Introduction
Case summary: The company C makes and trades in coursepacks that contain a compilation for college students. A teacher is involved in selecting the published readings and giving it to a copy shop to make copies of such material. The publishing company B which has the copyright to some of the readings has filed a copyright infringement claim against the company C.
To explain: The impact of such infringement on the copyright owner.
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