United States Fifth Circuit

In a copyright infringement case concerning teaching text for computer typing, a judgment of no infringement is affirmed where any copying by defendant was de minimis and constituted fair use according to 17 U.S.C. section 107.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/05/2004
• Published 10/05/2004

Judges

• EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:, Before JONES, DENNIS and PICKERING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael O. Sutton (argued), S. Shawn Stephens, Matthew G. Reeves, Locke, Liddell & Sapp, Houston, TX, David Nimmer, Elliot Brown, Wendy Marantz Levine, Irell & Manella, Los Angeles, CA, for Compaq Computer Corp.


• For Appellees:
  
• Parker H. Bagley (argued), Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York City, for Defendants-Appellants.