Guller v. Perlman

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that Mercury Records overruled Whiteman, but solely in the context of anti-piracy
• “New York’s common-law copyright has never recognized a right of public performance for pre-1972 sound recordings.”
• if there is a right to control public performance of sound recordings, “the copyright holders have gone decades without acting to enforce that right.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).