staple article

The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.

The scales are a staple article of trade, and are used in fancywork.

Then, she rejected that the space shifting in this case was either a fair use or protected under the staple article of commerce doctrine.

The court also held Betamax was not a staple article because its main purpose was copying.

Bat-stew and rice was, of course, the staple article, the staff of life; but sometimes we managed to vary it a little.

Both grow admirably in this country, and at no very distant period will form staple articles for home manufacture and foreign export.

Potatoes, being the staple article of production, are principally cultivated, as the price of twenty pounds per ton yields a large profit.

This staple article of food among the Marquese islanders is manufactured from the produce of the bread-fruit tree.

Pork is not a staple article of food among the people of the Marquesas, consequently they pay little attention to the breeding of the swine.

The staple articles of Ceylon production are coffee cinnamon and cocoa-nut oil, which are for the most part cultivated and manufactured by Europeans.

But the great staple articles of food into which the bread-fruit is converted by these natives are known respectively by the names of Amar and Poee-Poee.

In colder climates, however, we know fat to be a staple article of diet; and it is not unlikely that the very conditions which make it necessary there explain the unusual tolerance for it.

He ran up a grocery bill of sixteen dollars with Oeslogge, laying in a supply of staple articles, so that they would not have to buy any of those things for some time to come.

Judge Patel then turned to Napster's two arguments for why such third-party infringement was not illegal: fair use and substantial noninfringing use (the "staple article of commerce" doctrine from Sony v. Universal).

In addition to this, it would vastly affect the price of salt fish (the staple article of native consumption), and by the reduction in cost of this commodity there would be a corresponding extension in the trade.

When we abandoned this camp the next day, the miserable wretches remained in it and collected the offal about the cooks' fires to feast still more, piecing out the meal, no doubt, with their staple article of food--grasshoppers.

This Meeting consider this a great hardship, Lint being a staple article of the Island they therefore wish Shawfield may have the Goodness to order matters upon such a footing as to enable his Tenantry to put their manufacture to the best avail."

Judge Patel also asserted that, even given "the existence of a potentially unobjectionable use like space-shifting," she would not apply the staple article of commerce doctrine "because ... Napster exercises ongoing control over its service ... [it] maintains and supervises an integrated system that users must access to upload or download files.