A $100,000 copyright infringement judgment was vacated June 10 after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York determined that recently discovered evidence demonstrated that the actual owners of the copyrights in question were wholly-owned subsidiaries of EMI that were not made party to the lawsuit (EMI Entertainment World Inc. v. Karen Records Inc., S.D.N.Y., 1:05-cv-00390, 6/10/13).
A parent company cannot sue on behalf of its subsidiary, the court said. Because the new documents clearly demonstrate that EMI does not now, and never did, own the copyrights to the songs for which it sued, the ...
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