...knowledge that their customers might use the equipment to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. The sale of copying equipment, like the sale of other...widely used for legitimate, unobjectionable purposes, or, indeed, is merely capable of substantial noninfringing uses. Pp. 434-442. (c) The record and the...

...overruled on other grounds, Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Mfg. Co., 243 US 502, 517 (1917). We recognize there are substantial differences between...need merely be capable of substantial noninfringing uses. IV The question is thus whether the Betamax is capable of commercially significant noninfringing...

...knowledge that their customers might use the equipment to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. The sale of copying equipment, like the sale of other...widely used for legitimate, unobjectionable purposes, or, indeed, is merely capable of substantial noninfringing uses. Pp. 1&-22. (c) The record and the...

...Trade Comm'n 1984l: Midway Mfg. Co. v. Artie lnt'I, Inc., 211 USPQ (BNAl 1152, 1160 (ND III. 1981l. activities that make such duplication possible. The...need merely be capable of substantial noninfringing uses.1500 There must be direct infringement before contributory infringement can be found.1501 And...

...substantial noninfringing uses should not be held liable as contributory infringers. 362 The Court held: [T]he sale of copying equipment, like the sale of...need merely be capable of substantial noninfringing uses. 363 The Court determined that the key question was whether the videocassette recorder was "capable...

...determined that the manufacture and distribution of the VCR did not constitute contributory infringement: "The sale of copying equipment, like the sale of other...legitimate, unobjectionable purposes. Indeed, it need only be capable of substantial noninfringing uses. . . . One potential use of the Betamax plainly satisfies...

...Studios, Inc. That case held that the sale of equipment that could be used to copy copyrighted works, like the sale of other articles of commerce, does not constitute contributory infringement if the products is widely used for legitimate, unobjectionable purposes and has substantial noninfringing...

...City Studios. That case held that the sale of equipment that could be used to copy copyrighted works, like the sale of other articles of commerce, does...widely used for legitimate, unobjectionable purposes and has substantial noninfringing uses. Sections 12Cl(a)(2) and 1201(b) seek to alter that standard...

...use."38 In light of the "historic kinship between patent law and copyright law," the court held that "the sale of copying equipment, like the sale of other...product is widely used for legitimate, unobjectionable purposed."39 As long as the equipment is "merely . . . capable of substantial noninfringing uses,"...

...infringing act. 38 Stevens determined, after borrowing from some basic principles of patent law, that "the sale of copying equipment, like the sale of other...need merely be capable of substantial noninfringing uses." 39 After identifying this rule, the Court set out to decide whether "substantial noninfringing...