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IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY v. AMERICAN BROADCASTING

No. 1122, Docket 79-7819.

621 F.2d 57 (1980)

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC., an Iowa Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC., a New York Corporation, and ABC Sports, Inc., a New York corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 12, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coudert Brothers, New York City (Michael J. Calvey, Dennis R. Pearson, Carleton G. Eldridge, Jr., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Leonard Horn, New York City (Sprung, Felfe, Horn, Lynch & Kramer, Ira J. Schaefer, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, OAKES, Circuit Judge, and WILL, District Judge.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

Appellants, the American Broadcasting Co. and ABC Sports, Inc. ("ABC"), ask this court to reverse a judgment entered against them in the district court. They urge us to hold that their copying and broadcast of portions of a student-produced film, without permission of the copyright holder, constitute "fair use," exempt from liability because the benefits of broad public dissemination outweighed any harm to the owner of the copyright...

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