Granite Music Corporation v. United Artists Corporation

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• “If a plaintiff offers proof that the defendant had ‘access’ to his work and that the two works are substantially similar, then a presumption of copying by the defendant arises.”
• “Evidence of similar musical phrases appearing in prior works . . . demonstrates 24 AMBROSETTI V. OREGON CATHOLIC PRESS that the . . . probability of independent, coincidental production was great.”
• “Evidence of similar musical phrases appearing in prior works . . . demonstrates that the musical language was of such ordinary and common occurrence that the probability of independent, coincidental production was great.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).