Jarvis v. a & M RECORDS

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Copyright Act does not preempt claims brought under New Jersey law for the appropriation of another’s “voice or likeness”
• holding that a prima facie case of ownership can be established when plaintiff “present[s] a certificate of registration by the United States Copyright Office”
• finding that “[t]o establish profits, plaintiff is only required to present evidence of the defendants’ gross profits”
• defendants allegedly misappropriated “the last several minutes” of plaintiffs song’s distinctive keyboard riff, as well as distinctive lyrics
• “The Copyright Act does not preempt claims based on the appropriation of unfixed, non-copyrightable items such as a plaintiffs voice or likeness.”
• “It is settled law that a right is equivalent to copyright if it is infringed by the mere act of reproduction, performance, distribution or display.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).