‘You Raise Me Up’ Copyright Fight Rejected by Supreme Court

The owner of a 1977 Icelandic song suing over a song popularized by Josh Groban failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit’s copyright standard.

Johannsongs-Publishing Ltd. asked the high court to invalidate the two-part test for substantial similarity applied by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. It argued a separate test used by the Second Circuit would be enough to revive its claims that “You Raise Me Up,” written by Rolf Lovland in 2001 and popularized by Groban in 2003, infringed the song “Söknuður.

The Ninth Circuit takes stock of shared, protectable ...