Legal Opinion
Yesh Music, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided April 8, 2017No. 16 Civ. 1406 (BMC)PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION & ORDER
COGAN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs are the owners of publishing rights associated with over one hundred copyright registrations covering over two hundred musical recordings. They bring claims against defendants Amazon.com, Inc. and Amazon Digital Service, Inc. (together “Amazon” or “defendant”), alleging that Amazon infringed their copyrights by distributing phonorecords of plaintiffs’ recordings on numerous online music service products without first securing “compulsory licenses,” as that term is defined under the Copyright Act. Specifically, plaintiffs allege that…
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