Legal Opinion
Steele v. RICIGLIANO
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided May 18, 2011No. Civil Action 10-11458-NMGPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
NATHANIEL M. GORTON, District Judge.
Plaintiff Samuel Bartley Steele (“Steele”) brings this case against numerous defendants for copyright infringement. He claims that a song he wrote about the Boston Red Sox (“the Steele Song”) was unlawfully copied and used to create a promotion for post-season baseball telecasts (“the TBS Promo”). This is the third such lawsuit brought by Steele and will be referred to as “Steele III ”. In this case, Steele alleges that the named defendants infringed his copyright of the Steele Song sound recording, in violation of 17 U.S.C. § 114, by…
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