Ilene S. Farkas
Co-chair, litigation group music group, and copyright, media & entertainment litigation, and music litigation practices
Frank P. Scibilia
Co-chair, music group and copyright, media & entertainment litigation, music litigation, and music transactions practices
Benjamin K. Semel
Co-chair, music group, and chair, AI interdisciplinary group
James S. Sammataro
Co-chair, music group and media & entertainment litigation practice
Fresh from successfully defending Ed Sheeran, Warner Music and Sony Music Publishing from an infringement claim on Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” levelled by the Marvin Gaye estate, Pryor Cashman is representing more than 100 defendants in the “Dem Bow” copyright infringement case that the plaintiffs claim encroaches a drum pattern they claim to own. Over 1,800 songs and recordings are involved, as are superstars Justin Bieber, Pitbull, Becky G and Anitta.
Bound and DSP determined: “The songwriters and publishers are bound by a compulsory license. They don’t have the ability to say, ‘no,’” notes Scibilia. “So if Spotify were to tell Sony Publishing, ‘We want to license your catalog,’ all Spotify has to do is get a compulsory license, pay royalties to the Mechanical Licensing Collective and pay the statutory rate.”
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