Marshall v. New Kids on the Block Partnership

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• observing that a licensee who fails to use the work as agreed “effectively makes himself a ‘stranger’ to the copyright owner [and] the action arises under the copyright laws just as if the claim were against any other infringer who is a stranger to the plaintiff”
• To allow such an argument \would permit any alleged copyright infringer\ to ignore copyright laws \by making an [sic] bland allegation that use of copyrighted material was within the terms of an oral license agreement.\

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