Abkco Music, Inc. And Abkco Music and Records, Inc. v. Stellar Records, Inc., and Performance Tracks, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “lyrics enjoy independent copyright protection as ‘literary works’”
• “A synchronization license is required if a copyrighted musical composition is to be used in ‘timed-relation’ or synchronization with an audiovisual work.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).