Legal Opinion
Brown v. Latin American Music Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 7, 2007No. 06-2710PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is taken from the district court’s dismissal with prejudice of the declaratory defendants’ counterclaim for copyright infringement. The counter-claimants are the Latin American Music Company and the Asociación de Composi-tores y Editores de Música Latino Americana (collectively herein “LAMCO”), who claim that they own valid copyrights for eleven poems that were written by Juan Antonio Corretjer and “musicalized” by Roy Brown, a music composer and performer.
Mr. Brown brought a declaratory judgment action in the United States District Court for the District of…
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