Legal Opinion
Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 20, 1985No. 83-1632PublishedCited by 1,179 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
This case requires us to consider to what extent the “fair use” provision of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976 (here*542inafter the Copyright Act), 17 U. S. C. § 107, sanctions the unauthorized use of quotations from a public figure’s unpublished manuscript. In March 1979, an undisclosed source provided The Nation Magazine with the unpublished manuscript of “A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford.” Working directly from the purloined manuscript, an editor of The Nation produced a short piece entitled “The Ford Memoirs — Behind the Nixon Pardon.” The piece was timed to “scoop” an…
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