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Fox V. Dish Network: Sony Betamax And The Ninth Circuit's Failure To Ad-Skip To The Future, Alexander E. Porter Apr 2016

Fox V. Dish Network: Sony Betamax And The Ninth Circuit's Failure To Ad-Skip To The Future, Alexander E. Porter

Akron Intellectual Property Journal

Although fair use is a fact-specific doctrine, the court equated the facts of Fox v. Dish Network to Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. in order to avoid addressing both issues. This Note argues that if the Ninth Circuit had conducted a more in-depth fair use analysis, it would have found that Sony was less controlling than the court purported it to be, and that the use of Dish’s PTAT does not constitute fair use.

Part II of this Note discusses the doctrine of fair use, its application in Sony, and how the ruling of …