Adams v. Jackson

ORDER

MOODY, District Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this action alleging a claim of “reverse passing off,” which occurs when one misrepresents as his own someone else’s work or product. In the complaint, plaintiffs Steeltown Records, William Adams (a/k/a/Gordon Keith) and Elvy Woodard allege that Adams and Woodard hold valid copyrights on two musical compositions, “Let Me Carry Your Schoolbooks” and “I Never Had a Girl,” which Woodard, as part of a group called the “Ripples and Waves,” performed and recorded for Steeltown Records sometime prior to February 15, 1972. Plaintiffs claim that in 1996…