Legal Opinion
McDonald v. West
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 30, 2015No. 14-cv-8794 (AJN)PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
ALISON J. NATHAN, District Judge:
Joel R. McDonald, a musician who performs as “Joel Mac,” brings this copyright action against Kanye West, Shawn Carter (“Jay Z”), Frank Ocean, Mike Dean, Sha-ma Joseph, and related music industry defendants involved in creating the 2011 album Watch the Throne. Plaintiff Joel Mac claims that Defendants infringed his copyright by willfully copying his original song “Made in America” to create a track with the same title on Watch the Throne. See 17 U.S.C. § 501. Defendants moved to dismiss the complaint, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil…
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