Legal Opinion
Jorgensen v. Epic/Sony Records
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 3, 2003No. Docket No. 02-9305PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STRAUB, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff John L. Jorgensen (“Jorgen-sen”), pro se, appeals from the judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (John F. Keenan, Judge), dated September 27, 2002, granting the defendants’ motion for summary judgment and dismissing Jor-gensen’s copyright infringement case in its entirety. The District Court found that Jorgensen had not presented sufficient evidence of access to support his claim of copyright infringement, i.e., Jorgensen had not shown a reasonable opportunity by the allegedly infringing songwriters to hear and copy…
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