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46 AIPLA Q. J. 293 (2018)
Ambiguous Commercial Nature of Use in Fair Use Analysis

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                  AIPLA QUARTERLY JOURNAL


Volume   46, Number  3       Page  293                Summer   2018


        AMBIGUOUS COMMERCIAL NATURE OF USE
                     IN FAIR  USE  ANALYSIS

                             Igor Slabykh*

I.     INTRODUCTION.......................................................295
II.    COMMERCIAL NATURE  OF USE AS A SUB-FACTOR IN FAIR USE ANALYSIS
       .........................................................................298
III.   DOES ONE REALLY NEED TO DEFINE COMMERCIAL NATURE?..............300
       A.    TRANSFORMATIVE USE DOCTRINE AND COMMERCIALITY ..............300
       B.    COMMERCIALITY AS A MATTER OF DEGREE...........................309
IV.    THE PLAIN MEANING OF COMMERCIAL NATURE....................310
V.     THE SUPREME COURT ABOUT COMMERCIAL NATURE OF USE...................313
VI.    COMMERCIAL NATURE  OF USE IN CASE LAW AND SCHOLARLY WORKS
       .........................................................................316
       A.    COMMERCIAL  NATURE AS NOT PAYING CUSTOMARY PRICE..317
       B.    COMMERCIAL  NATURE AS COMMERCIAL GAIN.......................320
       C.    COMMERCIAL  NATURE IN OPPOSITION TO NONCOMMERCIAL
             NATURE .                  ........................................ ............323
       D.    COMMERCIAL NATURE  AS MARKET SUBSTITUTION/MARKET
             HARM.......................................................324
       E.    COMMERCIAL NATURE AS COMMERCIAL STATUS OF A USER .328
       F.    COMMERCIAL NATURE AS OPPOSED TO ARTISTIC/CREATIVE
             ...... ...           ................................................................331
       G.    COMMERCIAL NATURE AS RELATED TO COMMERCIAL SPEECH
             ...... ...           ................................................................332
       H.    COMMERCIAL NATURE AS NON-PRIVATE/PERSONAL COPYING.334


       *  @ 2018 Igor Slabykh. The author practiced copyright law in Russia and the
          Commonwealth of Independent States for more than ten years. In 2017, he
          earned the LLM degree from the George Washington University Law
          School. The author would like to thank Steven M. Tepp and Robert Brauneis
          for their help and answering author's endless questions about US copyright
          law. The author also would like to thank Susan Karamanian for opening to
          the author the world of US legal system. It should be stressed that this article
          cannot occur without great help from AIPLA Quarterly Journal editors and
          the author would specifically like to thank Alexia Khella, Kelly E. Elder, Nan
          Hu, and Palak Sharma.

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