Legal Opinion · Dissent
Vmg Salsoul, LLC v. Madonna Ciccone
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 2, 2016No. 13-57104 14-55837Published
1DissentSilverman, Circuit Judge
The plaintiff is the owner of a copyright in a fixed sound recording. This is a valuable property right, the stock-in-trade of artists who make their living recording music and selling records. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants, without a license or any sort of permission, physically copied a small part of the plaintiffs sound recording — which, to repeat, is property belonging to the plaintiff — and, having appropriated it, inserted into their own recording. If the plaintiffs allegations are to be believed, the defendants deemed this maneuver preferable to paying for a license to use…
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