BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT, INC.; MIRAMAX FILM CORP., Counterclaim-Plaintiffs v. VIDEO PIPELINE, INC., Counterclaim-Defendant; VIDEO PIPELINE, INC., Appellant.
No. 02-2497
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Argued Jan. 21, 2003. Opinion filed Aug. 26, 2003. As Amended Sept. 19, 2003.
Finally, even were the district court‘s ruling to exclude the testimony error, the error would have been harmless. During his cross-examination appellant ultimately was able to convey to the jury most of the information that the trial court had ruled inadmissible. He answered a cross-examination question by volunteering that Ruben had been deceived about the substance given to him because “it wasn‘t cocaine.” As the trial judge denied the prosecution‘s motion to strike that answer, the jury not only heard the gist of the excluded testimony but was also allowed to consider it in its deliberations.
CONCLUSION
Accordingly, for the foregoing reasons, the judgment is affirmed.
VIDEO PIPELINE, INC. v. BUENA VISTA HOME ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
Gary A. Rosen (Argued), Law Offices of Gary Rosen, P.C., Patrick Madamba, Jr., Esquire, Akins, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellee.
Jon A. Baumgarten, William M. Hart, Proskauer Rose LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.
Before BECKER,* NYGAARD, and AMBRO, Circuit Judges.
OPINION OF THE COURT
AMBRO, Circuit Judge.
In this copyright case we review the District Court‘s entry of a preliminary injunction against Video Pipeline, Inc.‘s online display of “clip previews.” A “clip preview,” as we use the term, is an approximately two-minute segment of a movie, copied without authorization from the film‘s copyright holder, and used in the same way as an authorized movie “trailer.” We reserve the term “trailer” for previews created by the copyright holdеr of a particular movie (or under the copyright holder‘s authority).
Video Pipeline challenges the injunction on the ground that its internet use of the clip previews is protected by the fair use doctrine and, alternatively, that appellees Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. and Miramax Film Corp.1 may not receive the benefits of copyright protection because they have engaged in copyright misuse. We reject both arguments, and affirm.
BACKGROUND
Video Pipeline compiles movie trailers onto videotape for home video retailers to
In 1997, Video Pipeline took its business to the web, where it operates VideoPipeline.net and VideoDetective.com. The company maintains a database accessible from VideoPipeline.net, which contains movie trailers Video Pipeline has received throughout the years. Video Pipeline‘s internet clients—retail web sites selling home videos—use VideoPipeline.net to display trailers to site visitors. The site visitors access trailers by clicking on a button labeled “preview” for a particular motion picture. The requested trailer is then “streamed” for the visitor to view (because it is streamed the trailer cannot be downloaded to or stored on the visitor‘s computer). The operators of the web sites from which the trailers are accessed—Video Pipeline‘s internet clients—pay a fee to have the trailers streamed based on the number of megabytes shown to site visitors. Video Pipeline has agreements to stream trailers with approximately 25 online retailers, including Yahoo!, Amazon, and Best Buy.
As noted, Video Pipeline also operates VideoDetective.com. On this web site, visitors can search for movies by title, actor, scene, genre, etc. When a search is entered, the site returns a list of movies and information about them, and allows the user to stream trailers from VideoPipeline.net. In addition to displaying trailers, VideoDetective.com includes a “Shop Now” button to link the user to a web site selling the requested video. Visitors to VideoDetective.com can also win prizes by playing “Can You Name that Movie?” after viewing a trailer on the site.
Video Pipeline included in its online database trailers it received under the License Agreement from Disney. Because the License Agreement did not permit this use, Disney requested that Video Pipeline remove the trailers from the database. It complied with that request.
On October 24, 2000, however, Video Pipeline filed a complaint in the District Court for the District of New Jersey seeking a declaratory judgment that its online use of the trailers did not violate federal copyright law. Disney shortly thereafter terminated the License Agreement.
Video Pipeline decided to replace some of the trailers it had removed at Disney‘s request from its database. In order to do so, it copied approximately two minutes from each of at least 62 Disney movies to create its own clip previews of the movies. (Again, to distinguish between the previews created under the copyright holder‘s authority and those created by Video Pipeline, we call the former “trailers” and the latter “clip previews” or “clips.” We use the term “previews” generically.)
Video Pipeline stores the clip previews in its database and displays them on the internet in the same way it had displayed the Disney trailers. In content, however, the clip previews differ from the trailers. Each clip preview opens with a display of the Miramax or Disney trademark and the title of the movie, then shows one or two scenes from the first half of the movie, and closes with the title again. Disney‘s trailers, in contrast, are designed to entice sales from a target market by using techniques such as voice-over, narration, editing, and additional music. Video Pipeline‘s
Disney also makes its trailers available online. It displays them on its own web sites in order to attract and to keep users there (a concept called “stickiness“) and then takes advantage of the usеrs’ presence to advertise and sell other products. Disney has also entered into agreements to link its trailers with other businesses, and, for example, has such a link with the Apple Computer home page.
Video Pipeline amended its complaint to seek a declaratory judgment allowing it to use the clip previews. Disney filed a counterclaim alleging copyright infringement. The District Court entered a preliminary injunction, later revised, prohibiting Video Pipeline from displaying clip previews of Disney films on the internet. See Video Pipeline, Inc. v. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., 192 F.Supp.2d 321 (D.N.J.2002). Video Pipeline appeals.3
DISCUSSION
We review for an abuse of discretion the District Court‘s decision to grant Disney‘s request for a preliminary injunction. Adams v. Freedom Forge Corp., 204 F.3d 475, 484 (3d Cir.2000). Under this standard, questions of law receive de novo review, and questions of fact are reviewed for clear error. Id.
To obtain a preliminary injunction, a party must show (1) that it is “reasonably likely to succeed on the merits” of its copyright infringement claim and (2) a likelihood that it will suffer irreparable harm if the injunction is denied. Id. Other issues to consider if relevant are (3) the likelihood of irreparable harm to the non-moving party and (4) the public interest. Id. Video Pipeline presents no arguments for issues (3) and (4), so we shall not discuss them, assuming instead that the District Court correctly held that these factors favored issuing the injunction. We therefore address the first two issues.
I. Likelihood of Success on the Merits
Subject to the fair use exception discussed below (and other exceptions not relevant here), copyright owners have the exclusive right (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work, (2) to prepare derivative works, (3) to distribute copies, (4) to per
On appeal, Video Pipeline challenges the District Court‘s holding that the clip previews likely violate
A. Fair Use
Congress‘s constitutional power to provide for copyright protection “is intended to motivate the creative activity of authors ... by the provision of a special reward, and to allow the public access to the products of their genius after the limited period of exclusive control has expired.” Sony Corp. of Am. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417, 429 (1984). At times, however, “rigid application of the copyright statute ... would stifle the very creativity which that law is designed to foster.” Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569, 577 (1994). When that is the case, the fair use doctrine may be implicated.
Cоngress codified the judicially created “fair use” defense at
In judging the fairness of a particular use, courts must take into account the following non-exhaustive list of factors:
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
This focus on copyright‘s purpose makes relevant a comparison of the copy with the original: where the copier uses none of his own creative activity to transform the original work, holding the fair use doctrine inapplicable will not likely interfere with copyright‘s goal of encouraging creativity. Thus, in the typical fair use case, the analysis under each statutory factor concentrates on the copy and the original work from which it derives. In this case, however, our analysis of the four statutory faсtors will take into account where relevant Disney‘s original full-length films and its trailers. We examine in this way the fairness of the online display of the clip previews because, among other things, the statute directs our attention under factor four to the effect of the allegedly infringing uses on both the potential market for any derivative works (the parties do not dispute that Disney‘s trailers qualify as derivative works) and the potential market for the originals. See Campbell, 510 U.S. at 590.
1. Purpose and Character of the Use
Once again, the first factor requires that we consider “the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.”
If a new work is used commercially rather than for a nonprofit purpose, its use will less likely qualify as fair. Campbell, 510 U.S. at 585. As Video Pipeline charges a fee to stream the clip previews, its use of the copies is commercial (as the District Court found).
The commercial nature of the use does not by itself, however, determine whether the purpose and character of the use weigh for or against finding fair use. Id. at 583-84. We look as well to any differences in character and purpose between the new use and the original. We consider whether the copy is “transformative” of the work it copied because it “alter[ed] the first with new expression, meaning, or message,” or instead “whether the new work merely supersedes the objects of the original creation.” Id. at 579 (citations and alteration in original omitted).
Video Pipeline asserts that its use of the clip previews substantially transforms the full-length films from which they derive because the clips and the movies have different purposes. According to Video Pipeline, the original works have an aesthetic and entertainment purpose while the clip previews serve only to provide information about the movies to internet users or as advertisements for the company‘s retail web site clients.5 To the extent
Video Pipеline also urges us to take into account the functional character and purpose of the database in which it stores trailers and clip previews, apparently hoping we will discern no significant difference between its database and the internet search engine used in Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp., 336 F.3d 811 (9th Cir.2003).7 In Kelly, Arriba Soft Corp.‘s search engine located images on other web sites in response to a user‘s request and displayed
Video Pipeline‘s database does not, however, serve the same function as did Arriba Soft‘s search engine. As used with retailers’ web sites, VideoPipeline.net does not improve access to authorized previews located on other web sites. Rather, it indexes and displays unauthorized copies of copyrightеd works. VideoDetective.com does permit viewers to link to legitimate retailers’ web sites, but a link to a legitimate seller of authorized copies does not here, if it ever would, make prima facie infringement a fair use.
Finally, we note that Video Pipeline‘s clip previews—to reiterate, approximately two-minute excerpts of full-length films with movie title and company trademark shown—do not add significantly to Disney‘s original expression. Video Pipeline itself asserts, and the District Court found, 192 F.Supp.2d at 337, that the clip pre
It is useful to compare the clip previews with a movie review, which might also display two-minute segments copied from a film. The movie reviewer does not simply display a scene from the movie under review but as well provides his or her own commentary and criticism. In so doing, the critic may add to the copy sufficient “new expression, message, or meaning” to render the use fair. Id. Here, in contrast, the fact that “a substantial portion,” indeed almost all, “of the infringing work was copied verbatim from the copyrighted work” with no additional creative activity “reveal[s] a dearth of transformative character or purpose.” Id. at 587. Consequently, rejecting the fair use defense in this case will not likely “stifle the very creativity” that the Copyright Clause “is designed to foster.” Id. at 577.
With this context, the District Court correctly concluded that Video Pipеline‘s clip previews lack any significant transformative quality. Thus, the commercial nature of the clip previews weighs more strongly against Video Pipeline‘s use. Campbell, 510 U.S. at 580 (If “the alleged infringer merely uses [the original work] to get attention or to avoid the drudgery in working up something fresh, the claim to fairness in borrowing from another‘s work diminishes accordingly (if it does not vanish), and other factors, like the extent of its commerciality, loom larger.“). Given the shared character and purpose of the clip previews and the trailers (so that the clips will likely serve as a substitute for the trailers) and the absence of creative ingenuity in the creation of the clips, the first factor strongly weighs against fair use in this case.
2. Nature of the Copyrighted Work
The second statutory fair use factor directs courts to consider “the nature of the copyrighted work.”
Video Pipeline argues that this factor nonetheless weighs in its favor because Disney released to the public its movies, if not all of its trailers, prior to Video Pipeline‘s display of the clip previews.8 It is true that Disney would have a stronger case against fair use had it not yet made its movies available for the public‘s viewing pleasure. See id. at 554 (“[T]he unpublished nature of a work is a key ... factor tending to negate a defense
But the second statutory factor does not necessarily weigh in favor of finding fair use simply because the public already has access to the original work. Rather, that Disney‘s movies and trailers contain mainly creative expression, not factual material, suggests that the use is not fair regardless of the published or unpublished status of the original. See e.g., Campbell, 510 U.S. at 586 (holding that the song Pretty Woman fit “within the core of the copyright‘s protective purposes” because of its creative expression, without considering that the original had already been made available to the public). The District Court therefore properly relied on the creative, non-factual expression involved in Disney‘s movies and trailers to hold that this factor weighs against the fair use defense.
3. Amount and Substantiality of the Work Copied
The third factor requires an analysis of “the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.”
As Video Pipeline points out, its previews excerpt only about two minutes from movies that last one and a half to two hours. Quantitatively then, the portion taken is quite small.
But the third factor “calls for thought not only about the quantity of the materials used, but about their quality and importance, too.” Campbell, 510 U.S. at 587. The District Court found that the clip previews, “for the most part, were used to provide the potential customer with some idea of the plot of each motion picture, its overall tone, and a glimpse of its leading characters.” 192 F.Supp.2d at 339. Although the plot, tone, and leading characters are, of course, significant aspects of the films, the two-minute “glimpse” provided by the clips is made up only of scenes taken from the first half of the Disney films. Disney has not claimed, for instance, that any of the clips “give away” the ending of a movie, or ruin other intended surрrises for viewers of the full-length films. Moreover, as advertisements, the clip previews are meant to whet the customer‘s appetite, not to sate it; accordingly, they are not designed to reveal the “heart” of the movies. Simply put, we have no reason to believe that the two-minute clips manage in so brief a time, or even intend, to appropriate the “heart” of the movies. Compare Harper & Row, 471 U.S. at 564-65 (weighing this factor against finding fair use because the alleged infringer “took what was essentially the heart of the book“).
Because the clip previews copy a relatively small amount of the original full-length films and do not go to the “heart” of the movies, this factor, contrary to the District Court‘s determination, weighs in favor of finding fair Video Pipeline‘s display of its clips.
4. Effect on Potential Market or Value
Finally, courts should evaluate “the effect of the use upon the potential market for оr value of the copyrighted work.”
Video Pipeline argued in the District Court that no market exists, оr could exist, for movie previews because no one “ever paid or will ever pay any money merely to see trailers.” But in fact retail websites are paying Video Pipeline to display both trailers and clip previews. Moreover, Video Pipeline takes too narrow a view of the harm contemplated by this fourth factor. The statute directs us to consider “the effect of the use upon the ... value of the copyrighted work,” not only the effect upon the “market,” however narrowly that term is defined.
Disney introduced evidence that it has entered an agreement to cross-link its trailers with the Apple Computer home page and that it uses on its own websites “the draw of the availability of authentic trailers to advertise, cross-market and cross-sell other products, and to obtain valuable marketing information from visitors who chose [sic] to register at the site or make a purchase there.” App. 945; see also Kelly, 336 F.3d at 821 (“Kelly‘s images are related to several potential markets. One purpose of the photographs is to attract internet users to his web site, where he sells advertising space as well as books and travel packages. In addition, Kelly could sell or license his photographs to other web sites or to a stock photo database, which then could offer the images to its customers.“). In light of Video Pipeline‘s commercial use of the clip previews and Disney‘s use of its trailers as described by the record evidence, we easily conclude that there is a sufficient market for, or other value in, movie previews such that the use of an infringing work could have a harmful effect cognizable under the fourth factor.
We have already determined that the clip previews lack transformative quality and that, though the clips are copies taken directly from the original full-length films rather than from the trailers, display of the clip previews would substitute for the derivative works. As a result, the clips, if Video Pipeline continues to stream them over the internet, will “serve[] as a market replacement” for the trailers, “making it
Consequently, “unrestricted and widespread conduct of the sort engaged in by [Video Pipeline] ... would result in a substantially adverse impact on the potential market” for the [derivative works].” Id. at 590 (quoting 3 M. Nimmer & D. Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright § 13.05(A)(4) (1993)). We therefore hold that the District Court should have weighed this factor against recognizing the fair use defense in this case.
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Three of the four statutory factors indicate that Video Pipeline‘s internet display of the clip previews will not qualify as a fair use. From our consideration of each of those factors, we cannot conclude that Video Pipeline‘s online display of its clip previews does anything but “infringe[] a work for personal profit.” Harper & Row, 471 U.S. at 563. The District Court therefore correctly held that Video Pipeline has failed to show that it will likely prevail on its fair use defense.
B. Copyright Misuse
Video Pipeline further contends that Disney has misused its copyright and, as a result, should not receive the protection of copyright law. Video Pipeline points to certain licensing agreements that Disney has entered into with three companies and sought to enter into with a number of other companies operating web sites.11 Each of these licensing agreements provides that Disney, the licensor, will deliver trailers by way of hyperlinks12 for display on the licensee‘s web site. The Agreements further state:
The Website in which the Trailers are used may not be derogatory to or critical of thе entertainment industry or of [Disney] (and its officers, directors, agents, employees, affiliates, divisions and subsidiaries) or of any motion picture produced or distributed by [Disney] ... [or] of the materials from which the Trailers were taken or of any person involved with the production of the Underlying Works. Any breach of this paragraph will render this license null and void and Licensee will be liable to all parties concerned for defamation and copyright infringement, as well as breach of contract....
As Video Pipeline sees it, such licensing agreements seek to use copyright law to suppress criticism and, in so doing, misuse those laws, triggering the copyright misuse doctrine.
Neither the Supreme Court nor this Court has affirmatively recognized the copyright misuse doctrine. See Dun & Bradstreet Software Servs., Inc. v. Grace Consulting, Inc., 307 F.3d 197, 221 (3d Cir.2002). There is, however, a well-established patent misuse doctrine, see, e.g., Morton Salt Co. v. G.S. Suppiger Co., 314 U.S. 488 (1942); W.L. Gore & Assocs., Inc. v. Carlisle Corp., 529 F.2d 614 (3d Cir.1976), and, as noted below, other courts of appeals have extended the doctrine to the copyright context.
The misuse doctrine extends from the equitable principle that courts “may appropriately withhold their aid where the plaintiff is using the right asserted contrary to the public interest.” Morton Salt, 314 U.S. at 492. Misuse is not cause to invalidate the copyright or patent, but instead “precludes its enforcement during the period of misuse.” Practice Management Info. Corp. v. American Med. Assoc., 121 F.3d 516, 520 n. 9 (9th Cir.1997) (citing Lasercomb America, Inc. v. Reynolds, 911 F.2d 970, 979 n. 22 (4th Cir.1990)). To defend on misuse grounds, the alleged infringer need not be subject to the purported misuse. Morton Salt, 314 U.S. at 494 (“It is the adverse effect upon the public interest of a successful infringement suit in conjunction with the patentee‘s course of conduct which disqualifies him to maintain the suit, regardless of whether the particular defendant has suffered from the misuse of the patent.“); Lasercomb, 911 F.2d at 979 (“[T]he fact that appellants here were not parties to one of Lasercomb‘s standard license agreements is inapрosite to their copyright misuse defense. The question is whether Lasercomb is using its copyright in a manner contrary to public policy, which question we have answered in the affirmative.“).
Misuse often exists where the patent or copyright holder has engaged in some form of anti-competitive behavior. See, e.g., Morton Salt, 314 U.S. at 492 (explaining that public policy “forbids the use of the patent to secure an exclusive right or limited monopoly not granted by the Patent Office“); Practice Management, 121 F.3d at 521 (finding copyright misuse where license to use copyrighted good prohibited licensee from using competing goods); Lasercomb, 911 F.2d at 979 (holding the copyright holder misused its copyright by including in licensing agreements a provision that neither the licensee company nor its officers, employees, et al., could develop competing goods for the term of the agreement, ninety-nine years). More on point, however, is the undеrlying policy rationale for the misuse doctrine set out in the Constitution‘s Copyright and Patent Clause: “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.”
Anti-competitive licensing agreements may conflict with the purpose behind a copyright‘s protection by depriving the public of the would-be competitor‘s creativ
For instance, the concurring opinion, written for a majority of the judges, in Rosemont Enters., Inc. v. Random House, Inc., 366 F.2d 303 (2d Cir.1966), concluded that pursuant to the unclean hands doctrine the District Court should not have entered a preliminary injunction against an alleged copyright infringer where thе copyright holder sought to use his copyright “to restrict the dissemination of information.” Id. at 311 (Lumbard, C.J., concurring). In Rosemont Enters., a corporation acting for the publicity-shy Howard Hughes purchased the copyright to an article about Hughes solely to bring an infringement suit to enjoin the publication of a forthcoming biography on Hughes. Id. at 313. The concurring opinion reasoned:
The spirit of the First Amendment applies to the copyright laws at least to the extent that the courts should not tolerate any attempted interference with the public‘s right to be informed regarding matters of general interest when anyone seeks to use the copyright statute which was designed to protect interests of quite a different nature.
Id. at 311; see also Eldred, 123 S.Ct. at 790 n. 24 (“[I]t is appropriate to construe copyright‘s internal safeguards to accommodate First Amendment concerns.“).
Although Rosemont Enters. did not concern an anti-competitive licensing agreement as in the typical misuse case, it focused—as do the misuse cases—on the copyright holder‘s attempt to disrupt a copyright‘s goal to increase the store of creative expression for the public good. 366 F.2d at 311 (“It would be contrary to the public interest to permit any man to buy up the copyright to anything written about himself and to use his copyright ownership to restrain other[s] from publishing biographical material concerning him.“); Lasercomb, 911 F.2d at 978 (“[T]he company is required to forego utilization of the creative abilities of all its officers, directors and employees in the area of [computer assisted design and computer assisted manufacture] die-making software. Of yet greater concern, these creative abilities are withdrawn from the public.“). A copyright holder‘s attempt to restrict expression that is critical of it (or of its copyrighted good, or the industry in which it
The licensing agreements in this case do seek to restrict expression by licensing the Disney trailers for use on the internet only so long as the web sites on which the trailers will appear do not derogate Disney, the entertainment industry, etc. But we nonetheless cannot conclude on this record that the agreements are likely to interfere with creative expression to such a degree that they affect in any significant way the policy interest in increasing the public store of creative activity. The licensing agreements do not, for instance, interfere with the licensee‘s opportunity to express such criticism on other web sites or elsewhere. There is no evidence that the public will find it any more difficult to obtain criticism of Disney and its interests, or even that the public is considerably less likely to come across this criticism, if it is not displayed on the same site as the trailers. Moreover, if a critic wishes to comment on Disney‘s works, the fair use doctrine may be implicated regardless of the existence of the licensing agreements. Finally, copyright law, and the misuse doctrine in particular, should not be interpreted to require Disney, if it licenses its trailers for display on any web sites but its own, to do so willy-nilly regardless of the content displayed with its copyrighted works. Indeed such an application of the misuse doctrine would likely decrease the public‘s access to Disney‘s works because it might as a result refuse to license at all online display of its works.
Thus, while we extend the patent misuse doctrine to copyright, and recognize that it might operate beyond its trаditional anti-competition context, we hold it inapplicable here. On this record Disney‘s licensing agreements do not interfere significantly with copyright policy (while holding to the contrary might, in fact, do so). The District Court therefore correctly held that Video Pipeline will not likely succeed on its copyright misuse defense.
II. Irreparable Harm
On the basis of Disney‘s prima facie infringement case and its likelihood of success against Video Pipeline‘s asserted defenses, the District Court presumed Disney would suffer irreparable injury if a preliminary injunction did not issue. Generally, “a showing of a prima facie case of copyright infringement or reasonable likelihood of success on the merits raises a presumption of irreparable harm.” Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp., 714 F.2d 1240, 1254 (3d Cir.1983).
When, however, “material peripheral to the [copyright holder‘s] business has been infringed,” we “require a stronger showing of irreparable harm as the [copyright holder‘s] likelihoоd of success on the merits wanes.” Marco v. Accent Publ‘g Co., 969 F.2d 1547, 1553 (3d Cir.1992). Video Pipeline has likely infringed Disney‘s movies, which are certainly more than peripheral to its business. Even if we were to consider here (as we did under the fourth fair use factor) that the likely market harm will be to the derivative market for trailers rather than to the market for the full-length features, and that the trailer market may be only peripheral to Disney‘s business, Disney has shown a strong likelihood of success on the merits, and so need not make a particularly strong showing of irreparable harm.
Regardless, the record indicates that Disney will likely incur incalculable losses from the clip previews’ competition with the trailers—especially in terms of internet users’ attraction to (and the “stickiness” of) Disney‘s and others’ web sites
CONCLUSION
The District Court correctly held that Disney will likely succeed on the merits of its copyright infringement case, given its prima facie showing and that Video Pipeline‘s attempts to defend on fair use and copyright misuse grounds will likely fail. The Court‘s conclusion as to irreparable harm was also correct. We therefore affirm the entry of the preliminary injunction prohibiting Video Pipeline from displaying its clip previews on the internet.
CHRISTOPHER OGBUDIMKPA, Appellant v. JOHN ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States; Kenneth John Elwood, District Director, INS Philadelphia District.
No. 02-118L.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Argued June 26, 2003.
Filed Aug. 22, 2003.