Flo & Eddie 2, SiriusXM 1 Florida Grants Summary Judgment to Sirius on pre-1972 sound recordings
Shades of Gray
JUNE 22, 2015
The Southern District of Florida has granted summary judgment to SiriusXM on Flo & Eddie’s claims that Sirius infringed Flo & Eddie’s public performance rights under Florida state law by streaming pre-1972 sound recordings. Although Flo & Eddie have prevailed in the trial courts in the Southern District of New York and Central District of California on nearly identical claims, the court found that “Florida is different” because, unlike California and New York,
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