LAW FIRM COPYING AND FAIR USE: AN EXAMINATION OF DIFFERENT PURPOSE AND FAIR USE MARKETS D.R. JONES* I. II.
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Evolution of Transformative Use: A Focus on Different Purpose .......................................... 324 B. Purpose as Predictive .................................... 329 C. Purpose and FourthFactorAnalysis............ ..... 333 D. Fair Use Markets ....................................... 339 1. Definition of a FairUse Market........... ...... 339 2. Determinationof a Fair Use Market .............. 341 a. Considerations in the Immediate Context................... 343 b. Considerations in the Broader Context..... ..... 345 c. Summary: Determination of a Fair Use Market ......... 347 IV.
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The legal industry took note when publishers sued patent law firms for copyright infringement. These lawsuits focused on the law firms' alleged use of unlicensed copies of scholarly articles in patent application filings, * Assistant Professor of Law, the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Thanks to the participants in the 2014 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium at Santa Clara University School of Law and participants in the 2014 Intellectual Property Scholars' Conference at UC Berkeley School of Law for their comments on earlier versions of this Article. Thanks to Rebecca Closner for her excellent research. Thanks also to Kate Schaffzin and Demetria Frank for their advice regarding evidence.
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