Legal Opinion
Video Pipeline, Inc. v. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 26, 2003No. 02-2497PPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
AMBRO, Circuit Judge.
In this copyright case we review the District Court’s entry of a preliminary injunction against Video Pipeline, Inc.’s online display of “clip previews.” A “clip preview,” as we use the term, is an approximately two-minute segment of a movie, copied without authorization from the film’s copyright holder, and used in the same way as an authorized movie “trailer.” We reserve the term “trailer” for previews created by the copyright holder of a particular movie (or under the copyright holder’s authority).
Video Pipeline challenges the injunction on the…
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