United States Ninth Circuit

In a copyright infringement case concerning music samples, summary judgment to defendants is affirmed where defendant's unauthorized use of the composition, as opposed to their authorized use of the sound recording, was de minimis and therefore not actionable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/07/2003
• Decided 11/04/2003
• Published 11/04/2003

Judges

• Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, THOMPSON, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan Korn,Law Offices of Alan Korn, Berkeley, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant., Todd M. Gascon (argued), Law Offices of Todd M. Gascon, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae Philip Glass, et al, in support of plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Adam F. Streisand and David C. Nelson, Loeb & Loeb, LLP, and Barry E. Mallen, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees., David M. Given and Sarah Sevier Farnbach, Phillips, Erlewine & Given, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the amici curiae DJ Shadow, et al., in support of defendants-appellees.