Legal Opinion

American Geophysical Union v. Texaco Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided October 28, 1994No. 1479, Docket 92-9341PublishedCited by 89 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JON 0. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

This interlocutory appeal presents the issue of whether, under the particular circumstances of this case, the fair use defense to copyright infringement applies to the photocopying of articles in a scientific journal. This issue arises on the appeal of defendant Texaco Inc. from the July 23, 1992, order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pierre N. Leval, Judge) holding, after a limited-issue bench trial, that the photocopying of eight articles from the Journal of Catalysis for use by one of Texaco’s researchers was not fair…

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