Copyrights: Supreme Court decisions

Every U.S. Supreme Court decision from the 1946 through 2025 Terms that the Supreme Court Database classifies under the issue “Copyrights,” part of the Economic Activity area.

Legal provisions most often involved

All 39 decisions, newest first

• Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entm't
  607 U.S. 583Decided March 25, 20269–0Clarence Thomas
• Warner Chappell Music v. Neal
  601 U.S. 366Decided May 9, 20246–3Elena Kagan
• Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith
  598 U.S. 508Decided May 18, 20237–2Sonia Sotomayor
• Unicolors, Inc v. H&m Hennes & Mauritz, Lp
  145 S. Ct. 941Decided February 24, 20226–3Stephen G. Breyer
• Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.
  141 S. Ct. 1163Decided April 5, 20216–2Stephen G. Breyer
• Georgia v. Public.resource.org Inc.
  140 S. Ct. 1498Decided April 27, 20205–4John G. Roberts Jr.
• Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com
  139 S. Ct. 881Decided March 4, 20199–0Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Rimini Street Inc. v. Oracle USA Inc.
  139 S. Ct. 873Decided March 4, 20199–0Brett M. Kavanaugh
• Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc.
  137 S. Ct. 1002Decided March 22, 20176–2Clarence Thomas
• American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, Inc.
  573 U.S. 431Decided June 25, 20146–3Stephen G. Breyer
• Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
  572 U.S. 663Decided May 19, 20146–3Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Supap Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
  568 U.S. 519Decided March 19, 20136–3Stephen G. Breyer
• Lawrence Golan v. Eric H. Holder, Jr.
  565 U.S. 302Decided January 18, 20126–2Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Costco Wholesale Corporation v. Omega, S.A.
  562 U.S. 40Decided December 13, 20104–4
• Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Irvin Muchnick
  559 U.S. 154Decided March 2, 20108–0Clarence Thomas
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.
  545 U.S. 913Decided June 27, 20059–0David H. Souter
• Eric Eldred v. John D. Ashcroft
  537 U.S. 186Decided January 15, 20037–2Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• New York Times Company, Inc. v. Jonathan Tasini
  533 U.S. 483Decided June 25, 20017–2Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Traffix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc.
  532 U.S. 23Decided March 20, 20019–0Anthony M. Kennedy
• C. Elvin Feltner, Jr. v. Columbia Pictures Television, Inc.Law held unconstitutional
  523 U.S. 340Decided March 31, 19989–0Clarence Thomas
• Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L'Anza Research International, Inc.
  523 U.S. 135Decided March 9, 19989–0John Paul Stevens
• Lotus Development Corporation v. Borland International, Inc.
  516 U.S. 233Decided January 16, 19964–4
• Luther R. Campbell aka Luke Skyywalker v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.
  510 U.S. 569Decided March 7, 19949–0David H. Souter
• Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., Inc.
  499 U.S. 340Decided March 27, 19919–0Sandra Day O'Connor
• Stewart v. Abend
  495 U.S. 207Decided April 24, 19906–3Sandra Day O'Connor
• Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid
  490 U.S. 730Decided June 5, 19899–0Thurgood Marshall
• Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises
  471 U.S. 539Decided May 20, 19856–3Sandra Day O'Connor
• Mills Music, Inc. v. Snyder
  469 U.S. 153Decided January 8, 19855–4John Paul Stevens
• Sony Corporation of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.
  464 U.S. 417Decided January 17, 19845–4John Paul Stevens
• Twentieth Century Music Corp. v. Aiken
  422 U.S. 151Decided June 17, 19757–2Potter Stewart
• Teleprompter Corp. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
  415 U.S. 394Decided March 4, 19746–3Potter Stewart
• Goldstein v. California
  412 U.S. 546Decided June 18, 19735–4Warren E. Burger
• Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc.
  392 U.S. 390Decided June 17, 19685–1Potter Stewart
• Public Affairs Associates, Inc. v. Rickover
  369 U.S. 111Decided March 5, 19626–3Per curiam
• Miller Music Corp. v. Charles N. Daniels, Inc.
  362 U.S. 373Decided April 18, 19605–4William O. Douglas
• Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. v. Loew's Inc.
  356 U.S. 43Decided March 17, 19584–4
• De Sylva v. Ballentine
  351 U.S. 570Decided June 11, 19569–0John M. Harlan II
• Mazer v. Stein
  347 U.S. 201Decided March 8, 19547–2Stanley F. Reed
• F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Contemporary Arts, Inc.
  344 U.S. 228Decided December 22, 19527–2Robert H. Jackson

Source: Supreme Court Database, 2026 Release 01 (data file dated September 8, 2026). Imported into CaseTrail November 5, 2026. Coverage: decisions from the 1946 through 2025 Terms. Methodology · Report an error