Legal Opinion
Guzman v. Hacienda Records & Recording Studio, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 14, 2015No. 15-40297PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARL E. STEWART, Chief Judge:
Corpus Christi, Texas, is the hub of Tejano music, a genre. that particularly thrived from the 1970s through the 1990s. This case requires the court to flash back to that era and scrutinize two Tejano songs that were in the mix at the time: Triste Aventurera (“Triste”) and Cartas de Amor (“Cartas ”). After hearing Car-tas on the radio, Plaintiff-Appellant Jose Guzman (“Guzman”) filed suit against Defendant-Appellee Hacienda Records and Recording Studio, Inc.’, alleging, inter alia, that Hacienda’s release of Cartas infringed upon his Triste copyright. After a…
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