Legal Opinion · Dissent

Princeton University Press, MacMillan Inc., and St. Martin's Press, Inc. v. Michigan Document Services, Inc., and James M. Smith

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided November 8, 1996No. 94-1778Published

1DissentMerritt, Circuit Judge

The copying done in this case is permissible under the plain language of the copyright statute that allows “multiple copies for classroom use:” “[T]he fair use of a copyrighted work ... for purposes such as ... teaching (■including multiple copies for classroom use), ... is not an infringement of copyright.” 17 U.S.C. § 107 (emphasis added). Also, the injunction the Court has upheld exceeds the protections provided by the Copyright Act of 1976 regardless of whether the use was a fair use and is so grossly overbroad that it violates the First Amendment.

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