Case: Copyrights/Infringement (D.D.C.)

Sony Music Entm’t’s motion to dismiss, in a song distributor’s copyright infringement action against Sony, was granted by the federal district court for the District of Columbia. The court concluded that the distributor has failed to state a claim for copyright infringement because not all of the songs that he alleges were infringed have been registered with the Copyright Office, and he has not sufficiently alleged that Sony had access to his registered works or that there are substantial similarities between protectable aspects of those works and most of the infringing songs in the complaint. Moreover, the court found that ...