High Court Lets ‘Jersey Boys’ Producers’ Copyright Win Stand

An author failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” infringed his unpublished autobiography.

The producers of the musical were sued by Donna Corbello, the wife of the author who had ghost-written Four Seasons band member Tommy DeVito’s autobiography. She said DeVito had given the producers a copy of the book written in the 1980s but never published, and that the musical’s creators ripped it off.

A Nevada federal jury found infringement, but district and appeals judges unanimously ruled that any similarities in the book were based on historical facts. Even ...