United States Sixth Circuit

Summary judgment against plaintiff's claim of infringement of its sound recording copyright is reversed where no substantial similarity or de minimis inquiry should have been undertaken since defendant did not dispute that it digitally sampled a copyrighted sound recording.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/07/2004
• Published 09/07/2004

Judges

• Before:  GUY and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  BARZILAY, Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Richard S. Busch, King & Ballow, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants.  Robert L. Sullivan, Loeb & Loeb, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Richard S. Busch, D'Lesli M. Davis, King & Ballow, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants.  Robert L. Sullivan, John C. Beiter, Loeb & Loeb, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.  Marjorie Heins, Brennan Center for Justice at Nyu School of Law, New York, New York, Paul M. Smith, Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C., Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, Todd M. Gascon, Law Office of Todd Gascon, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae.