List of United States Supreme Court copyright case law

This is a list of Supreme Court of the United States cases in the area of copyright law.

Over the decades since, copyright in the United States has become a more complicated system with longer terms and more tests, and has been the subject of many decisions by the Court.

The Supreme Court was the source of a number of concepts in the field, including fair use, the idea-expression divide, the useful articles or separability doctrine, and the uncopyrightability of federal documents.

A map-maker has no more an exclusive right to use the form of the characters they employ to express their ideas on a map than they have to use the typeface they use for text.

When the Court refuses to hear a case, justices are entitled to write dissents to that denial of certiorari.