BTE v. Bonnecaze

How courts have described this case

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• finding no joint ownership because party failed to show that his suggestions ever became tangible expressions of copyrightable work
• ideas and insights contributed by drummer of rock band insufficient to establish joint authorship of underlying compositions, and drummer’s contributions to sound recordings cannot serve as the required tangible expression for establishing joint authorship of underlying compositions
• “[T]he rights of an owner of a copyright in a sound recording do not extend to the song itself. A copyright in the recording and in the song are separate and distinct and by statute are treated differently.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).