The photocopy court case is mentioned in that article as a "small precedent", yeah. Though I can't speculate on how the sci-hub case will actually go since the

The photocopy court case is mentioned in that article as a "small precedent", yeah. Though I can't speculate on how the sci-hub case will actually go since the main reason copying was allowed for students according to the arguments was that before photocopiers existed, they were expected to copy the things themselves.