| Litigants: | Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc. |
| Arguedate: | March 13 |
| Argueyear: | 1968 |
| Decidedate: | June 17 |
| Decideyear: | 1968 |
| Fullname: | Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc. |
| Usvol: | 392 |
| Uspage: | 390 |
| Parallelcitations: | 88 S. Ct. 2084; 20 L. Ed. 2d 1176 |
| Prior: | 377 F.2d 872 (2d Cir. 1967) |
| Holding: | Receiving a television broadcast does not constitute a "performance" of a work. |
| Majority: | Stewart |
| Joinmajority: | Warren, Black, Brennan, White |
| Dissent: | Fortas |
| Notparticipating: | Douglas, Marshall, and Harlan |
Fortnightly Corp. v. United Artists Television, Inc., 392 U.S. 390 (1968), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that receiving a television broadcast does not constitute a "performance" of a work.[1]
In 1968, the United States Copyright Office called this case "the most important American copyright case of the 1960s."[2]