Legal Opinion
Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 2, 2003No. 02-428PublishedCited by 475 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
In this cáse, we are asked to decide whether § 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U. S. C. § 1125(a), prevents the unaccredited copying of a work, and if so, whether a court may double a profit award under § 1117(a), in order to deter future infringing conduct.
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In 1948, three and a half years after the German surrender at Reims, General Dwight D. Eisenhower completed Crusade in Europe, his written account of the allied campaign in Europe during World War II. Doubleday published the book, registered it with the Copyright Office in 1948, and granted exclusive television rights to an affiliate of…
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