Case-Law Precedent Database

1,349 copyright cases. 277 judge profiles.

Extracted from CourtListener's 71M opinion-cluster corpus. Filter, scatterplot, and inspect the precedents anchoring IPLYR's Legal Intelligence module.

CourtListener cases extracted

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Judge profiles

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Landmark cases indexed

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Fair-use validated (53 FU · 58 NFU)

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Circuit

Disposition

From year: 1909

Cases · year × outcome

1909196020002025

Landmark cases

Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music

S. Ct. · 1994 · Souter, J.

Commercial parody can be transformative; weight given to purpose/character factor.

fair use

Authors Guild v. Google

2d Cir. · 2015 · Leval, J.

Snippet display of digitized books is transformative; market harm not substantial.

fair use

Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith

S. Ct. · 2023 · Sotomayor, J.

Commercial use with the same purpose weighs against fair use; reshaped factor-one analysis.

not fair use

Sega Enterprises v. Accolade

9th Cir. · 1992 · Reinhardt, J.

Intermediate copying for reverse engineering of unprotected functional elements is fair use.

fair use

American Geophysical Union v. Texaco

2d Cir. · 1994 · Newman, J.

Systematic photocopying of articles for in-house research not fair use; market-substitute analysis.

not fair use

Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios

S. Ct. · 1984 · Stevens, J.

Time-shifting of broadcast TV by home users is fair use.

fair use

Harper & Row v. Nation

S. Ct. · 1985 · O'Connor, J.

Unpublished work + use of qualitatively significant excerpt defeated fair-use claim.

not fair use

Perfect 10 v. Amazon

9th Cir. · 2007 · Ikuta, J.

Thumbnail image search is highly transformative.

fair use

Kadrey v. Meta Platforms

N.D. Cal. · 2024 · Chhabria, J.

Pending — Books3 training-data class. IPLYR coverage: nv-recall validated against Books3 distractor set.

unclear

Bartz v. Anthropic (settlement context)

N.D. Cal. · 2024 · —

$3,000/work settlement anchor referenced by IPLYR settlement_pricing_engine.

unclear

Known limits — disclosed

·8th Circuit coverage is currently 0 cases — gap flagged for next dataset expansion.
·Landmark list shows 10 representative cases drawn from the 414-case landmark index. Full programmatic access via /docs/api.
·Disposition tags reflect IPLYR's annotation of holdings; counsel should consult the underlying opinions for binding language.