United States Ninth Circuit

In a copyright infringement action, the district court's order granting a preliminary injunction is affirmed where the court did not abuse its discretion when it weighed the four statutory fair-use factors together and determined that plaintiffs would likely succeed on the merits.

Appellate Information

• Argued 08/08/2003
• Decided 11/06/2003
• Published 11/06/2003

Judges

• Before NOONAN, TALLMAN, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Michael R. Blaha, Santa Monica, CA, for the defendants-appellants., George R. Hedges and Kristen Bird, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.