United States Second Circuit

Evidence of corporate receipt of unsolicited work is insufficient to raise a triable issue of access where there is no evidence of any connection between the individual recipients of the protected work and the alleged infringers. With respect to some defendants, summary judgment is vacated as plaintiff did proffer sufficient evidence on the issue of access.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2003
• Published 12/03/2003

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge., Before:  KEARSE, STRAUB, and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John L. Jorgensen, pro se, Brooklyn, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Orin Snyder (Cynthia S. Arato, on the brief), Parcher, Hayes, & Snyder, P.C., New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees Careers BMG Music Publishing Inc., Songs of Nashville Dreamworks, Sony Music Entertainment Inc., and Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corporation., Jonathan Zavin,Loeb & Loeb, LLP, New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellees Famous Music Corporation, Fox Film Music Corporation, and Blue Sky Rider Songs.