Robert A. Gorman - University of Virginia School of Law
Section: Chapter 8: State Law and Its Preemption
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U.S. Supreme Court - Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises, 471 U.S. 539 (1985)
U.S. Supreme Court - Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co., 376 U.S. 225 (1964)
U.S. Supreme Court - Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc., 376 U.S. 234 (1964)
Federal Preemption
When relief is sought under state law against unauthorized use of literary, artistic or musical creations, a question arises as to the compatibility of state relief with the federal Copyright Act. For a state to forbid copying permitted under federal law, or for a state to permit copying that federal law proscribes, would equally raise questions of compliance with the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, Article VI, Clause 2.In a number of significant cases that arose prior to the 1976 Copyright Act, the Supreme Court dealt with claims that state anti-copying laws were preempted because of their incompatibility with either the p...
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