AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, et al., Plaintiffs-Counterclaim-Defendants-Appellees,
v.
TEXACO INC., Defendant-Counterclaim-Plaintiff-Appellant.
In re TEXACO INC., et al., Reorganized Debtors.
ACADEMIC PRESS, INC., et al., Petitioners-Appellees,
v.
TEXACO INC., Respondent-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued May 20, 1993.
Decided October 28, 1994.
Amended December 23, 1994.
Further Amended July 17, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Thomas A. Smart, New York City (Milton J. Schubin, Michael Malina, Richard A. De Sevo, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York City; Joseph P. Foley, Texaco, Inc. White Plains, NY, on the brief), for appellant.
Stephen Rackow Kaye, New York City (Jon A. Baumgarten, James F. Parver, Christopher A. Meyer, Karen E. Clarke, Susan L. Hochman, Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York City, on the brief), for appellees.
(Susan G. Braden, Rueben B. Robertson, Ingersoll and Bloch, Wash., D.C., submitted a brief for amicus curiae Amer. Library Ass'n).
(Ritchie T. Thomas, James V. Dick, Susan Neuberger Weller, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Washington, DC, submitted a brief for amici curiae Ass'n of Research Libraries, Amer. Ass'n of Law Libraries, Sp. Libraries Ass'n, Medical Library Ass'n, Amer. Council of Learned Societies, Nat'l Humanities Alliance, and Ass'n of Academic Health Sciences Library Directors).
(Lawrence E. Abelman, Jeffrey A. Schwab, Norman S. Beier, Nancy J. Mertzel, Abelman, Frayne & Schwab, New York City, submitted a brief for amici curiae Amer. Auto. Mfrs. Ass'n and Chemical Mfrs. Ass'n).
Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, WINTER and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
JON O. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:
This interlocutory appeal presents the issue of whether, under the particular circumstances of this case, the fair use defense to copyright infringement applies to the photocopying of articles in a scientific journal. This issue arises on the appeal of defendant Texaco Inc. from the July 23, 1992, order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Pierre N. Leval, Judge) holding, after a limited-issue bench...
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