Legal Opinion
Alicea v. MacHete Music
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 7, 2014No. 12-1548PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
Over a century ago, Mark Twain lamented that “[ojnly one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.” Mark Twain, The Complete Works of Mark Twain: Mark Twain’s Notebook 381 (Albert Bigelow Paine ed., 1935). We fear that Twain’s deity would fare little better with the tangled skein of copyright and contractual claims presented by the plaintiffs in this case. Confining our inquiry to the arguments seasonably raised before the district court and to the factual background at the time of summary judgment, we conclude that the district…
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