Loyola University Chicago Law Journal Volume 16 Article 4 Issue 1 Fall 1984 1984 Consumers Union of United States, Inc., v. General Signal Corp: Commercial Free Speech and the Fair Use Doctrine of Copyright Clifford E. Berman Follow this and additional works at: http://lawecommons.luc.edu/luclj Part of the First Amendment Commons, and the Intellectual Property Law Commons Recommended Citation Clifford E. Berman, Consumers Union of United States, Inc., v. General Signal Corp: Commercial Free Speech and the Fair Use Doctrine of Copyright, 16 Loy. U. Chi. L. J. 85 (1984). Available at: http://lawecommons.luc.edu/luclj/vol16/iss1/4 This Note is brought to you for free and open access by LAW eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola University Chicago Law Journal by an authorized administrator of LAW eCommons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Notes Consumers Union of United States, Inc. v. General Signal Corp.: Commercial Free Speech and the Fair Use Doctrine of Copyright INTRODUCTION A grant of copyright in a creative work secures for its author a limited monopoly over the use of that work.' Unauthorized copy- ing of a work generally constitutes infringement.2 Not all copying of an author's work, however, is deemed an infringement.' The statutorily defined defense of fair use permits copying for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, scholarship, and research.4 It has traditionally been held that the use of another's work for commercial purposes is presumptively unfair.' In fact, the Copy- 1. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C.