Legal Opinion
Hines v. EMI April Music Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 8, 2021No. 1:20-cv-03535Unknown
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ERNIE HINES, Plaintiff, 20-CV-3535 (JPO) -v- OPINION AND ORDER W CHAPPELL MUSIC CORP., et al., Defendants. J. PAUL OETKEN, District Judge: In the 1960s, Ernie Hines co-authored the soul single “Help Me Put Out The Flame (In My Heart),” which opens with a three-bar guitar riff. He now brings suit against BMG Rights Management (US) LLC (“BMG”), W Chappell Music Corporation,1 and the artists known as Jay-Z and Timbaland (together, “Defendants”), alleging that they incorporated elements of that riff into two hip-hop songs without his…
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