Legal Opinion

Jondora Music Publishing Company v. Melody Recordings, Inc.

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided January 23, 1975No. 74-1241PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

WEIS, Circuit Judge.

To a schoolboy, “piracy” may mean swashbuckling adventure, lumbering merchantmen, booty, and the Jolly Roger. To a musical composer or a record manufacturer, however, piracy means not doubloons, but dollars, not cutlasses, but cut-rate losses, not the creaking of a ship under way, but the almost imperceptible hum of a reel-to-reel tape, and certainly no jollity about unauthorized copies of a musical work. We conclude here that a composer is not defenseless but, using the guns of the Copyright Act, can force the pirate to heave to in response to an…

2Cases cited9 opinions

Goldstein v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
White-Smith Music Publishing Co. v. Apollo Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1908
Capitol Records, Inc. v. Mercury Records CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1955
Edward B. Marks Music Corporation v. Colorado Magnetics, Inc., D/B/A Sound Values, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1974
Duchess Music Corporation v. Martin SternCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1972

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3Cited by18 opinions

First Technology Safety Systems, Inc., a Michigan Corporation v. Paul Depinet Steven Fuhr Barry Wade Vector Research, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1993
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Ltd. v. Walt Disney Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1998
Gai Audio of New York, Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.Court of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1975
Herbert L. Cohen, Dba Bizarre Music, Co. v. Paramount Pictures Corp., a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
COLUMBIA BROADCAST. SYST., INC. v. Melody Recordings, Inc.New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1975

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