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8 May, 2008 7:51 pm
... unfair competition against all defendants. VTran Media Technologies, LLC v. Antietam Cable Television, Inc., No. 1:2008cv00739; filed March 21, 2008; assigned to J. Garbis
Almo Music ... , Inc., EMI Virgin Songs, Inc., Elijah Blue Music, Unichappell
Music, Inc., ABKCO Music, Inc., EMI Algree
Music Corp., Wayne Hodge, Sony/ATV Songs, LLC, ... E. Brooks, III and Ronnie Gene Dunn. Plaintiffs allege that defendants Carullo Steele,
Inc., owner/operator of Freddies Bel Air (Bel Air, MD), and Stephen J. Carullo ...
8 Jan, 2008 6:58 am
... F.3d 574 (6th Cir. 2007). (See also ABKCO Music, Inc. v. Stellar Records, Inc., 96
F.3d 60 (2d Cir. 1996)). ... like printing out the lyrics and not just displaying them alongside a performance of the music. The courts have
agreed with copyright owners that karaoke manufacturers require a sync right ... phonorecords. Phonorecords are the physical embodiments of works, not the works themselves. Only
nondramatic musical works are subject to the Section 115 compulsory license, and audiovisual works aren't ...
9 Mar, 2008 11:10 pm
... copyright angle, BMG, here, the license owner, issues "compulsory mechanical licenses" to copyrighted musical compositions under § 115 of the Copyright Act. But wait; we need
the lyrics, not ... " fee and a "synchronization fee." The exclusive rights granted to a copyright author for "nondramatic musical works" to make and to distribute "phonorecords"
of such works are subject to compulsory licensing. ... F.3d 881, 884-85 (9th Cir.1996) ; ABKCO Music,
Inc. v. Stellar Records, Inc., 96 F.3d 60, 63 n. 4 ( ...
29 May, 2008 6:32 am
... and how it may work out in practice. She notes too a tension between Johnson's actual musical practice and his later, posthumous characterizations, observing: "The
collaborative nature of blues musical composition does not lend ... in copyright." (page 12). Professor Olufunmilayo helpfully reviews the litigation involving Johnson's works,
ABKCO Music, Inc. v. LaVere. 217 F.3d 684 (9th Cir. 2000). Defendant LaVere had reached an
agreement with Johnson's surviving heir, Carrie Thompson, with a 50-50 ...
28 Jun, 2007 6:47 pm
... few other cases involving the unlicensed use of music in karaoke CDs, see e.g. ABKCO Records,
Inc. v. Stellar Records, Inc., 96 F.3d 60 (2d ... of these songs, Santos admitted that the hired musicians did not "change the words or music." Unlike a parody, see Campbell, 510 U.S. at 579-80, a facsimile recording ... microphone, hop on stage, and live out their [sic] fantasies of
performing as famous music stars." Moreover, the record is bereft of evidence indicating that Panorama's products are used for ...
1 Jun, 2007 7:04 am
... against the party who drafted the agreement also came into play. In Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Ltd. v. Walt Disney Co., 145 F.3d
481, 487 ... the same thing-a canon of contract construction that places the burden on one of the parties. In Random House, Inc. v. Rosetta Books LLC, 283 F.3d 490 (2d Cir.
2002), ... . Greenfield also overruled another lower appellate court's holding in Caldwell v. ABKCO Music Records that limited rights granted to "core" rights, reserving to the grantor rights not ...
22 Apr, 2008 4:44 am
... licensee of a 1909 Act have standing to sue today for infringement of the work? The Second Circuit has held yes, in Roth v. Pritikin, 710 F.2d 934, 938 (2d Cir. 1983). See also
Essex Music, Inc. v. ABKCO Music & Records, 743
F. Supp. 237, 240-241 (S.D.N.Y. 1990). Last summer, though, Judge Stephen Wilson of the Central District of California, in Nafal v. Shawn Carter (Beoynce's maybe husband), 2007 WL
5022506 (C.D. ...
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