Legal Opinion
Vmg Salsoul, LLC v. Madonna Ciccone
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 2, 2016No. 13-57104 14-55837PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dissent by Judge SILVERMAN
OPINION
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
In the early 1990s, pop star Madonna Louise Ciccone, commonly known by her first name only, released the song Vogue to great commercial success. In this copyright infringement action, Plaintiff VMG Salsoul, LLC, alleges that the producer of Vogue, Shep Pettibone, copied a 0.23-sec-ond segment of horns from an earlier song, known as Love Break, and used a modified version of that snippet when recording Vogue. Plaintiff asserts that Defendants Madonna, Pettibone, and others thereby violated Plaintiffs copyrights to Love Break. The district…
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