Copying Copyright Law Ownership Settlement 
The IP Law Blog
AUGUST 26, 2021
Calling it a “ball of confusion,” the Ninth Circuit recently considered a case involving the music of the Turtles, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and whether royalties are owed under California copyright law for music dating prior to 1972. In doing so, the Ninth Circuit reviewed nearly 200 years of copyright law to reach its conclusion.
LexBlog IP
AUGUST 26, 2021
Calling it a “ball of confusion,” the Ninth Circuit recently considered a case involving the music of the Turtles, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and whether royalties are owed under California copyright law for music dating prior to 1972. In a lawsuit that was originally filed in 2013 titled, Flo & Eddie, Inc. ”).
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LexBlog IP
AUGUST 26, 2021
Calling it a “ball of confusion,” the Ninth Circuit recently considered a case involving the music of the Turtles, SiriusXM Satellite Radio, and whether royalties are owed under California copyright law for music dating prior to 1972. In a lawsuit that was originally filed in 2013 titled, Flo & Eddie, Inc. ”).
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
AUGUST 30, 2021
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that California Civil Code section 980(a)(2) , which grants “exclusive ownership” of a sound recording fixed before February 15, 1972, to its “author,” provides only an exclusive right of reproduction and distribution, and does not provide an exclusive right of public performance.
43(B)log
AUGUST 3, 2023
Musicologists in litigation: (1) identify formal similarities—instrumentation, chord progression; (2) opine on how aesthetically similar/significant those similarities are; (3) opine about the rarity of similar features; (4) opine that copying did or didn’t occur. Same concept of similarity governs both elements of the copyright claim!
Copyright Lately
AUGUST 10, 2021
In a 91-page report and recommendation, a magistrate judge finds that the new version of the Philadelphia Phillies’ mascot falls within the “derivative works exception” to copyright termination. H/E), a creative design firm, which in 1984 assigned the copyright in the mascot for a term of “forever.”
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
MARCH 29, 2023
At an initial conference on January 23, 2023, the parties reached a settlement and asked to dismiss the claim. It took eight months, but the ownership question of the photographs has been settled. And the Copyright Claims Officer did not make a substantive determination; the case was merely settled. It seems like it did.
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