Legal Opinion
Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. v. Campbell
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 17, 1992No. 91-6225PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOINER, Senior District Judge.
In this copyright case, plaintiff appeals summary judgment granted to defendants. The district court held that defendants’ use of a song owned by plaintiff was a parody and therefore constituted a fair use of copyrighted material under section 107 of the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq.
The 2 Live Crew, a rap music group, released for commercial distribution a version of Acuff-Rose Music’s copyrighted song, “Oh, Pretty Woman.” Acuff-Rose sued The 2 Live Crew, its individual members and its record company for copyright infringement and alleged pendent state…
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