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Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp. | |
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Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
Full case name | Annie Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp. |
Argued | October 20, 1997 |
Decided | February 19, 1998 |
Citation | 137 F.3d 109 |
Case history | |
Prior history | Complaint dismissed, S.D.N.Y. Dec. 20, 1996 |
Subsequent history | 137 F.3d 580 |
Holding | |
A parody of Annie Leibovitz' photograph was deemed to be fair use. Southern District of New York affirmed. | |
Court membership | |
Judges sitting | Circuit Judges Jon O. Newman, Guido Calabresi, Richard Dickson Cudahy (sitting by designation from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals) |
Case opinions | |
Majority | Newman, joined by Calabresi, Cudahy |
Laws applied | |
Copyright Act of 1976 |
Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp., 137 F.3d 109 (2d Cir. 1998), is an influential Second Circuit fair use case.