Stratchborneo v. Arc Music Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that copying that is small or common must be “especially unique or qualitatively important”
• the similarities must be “so striking and of such nature as to preclude the possibility of coincidence, accident or independent creation.”
• phrase “MOJO” is “so commonplace as to be substantially within the public domain”
• “[S]ubstantial similarity cannot be established . . . simply by showing that both . . . songs focus on [a particular] idea; [the plaintiff] to prevail must establish that the [defendants], in a material way, tracked his . . . treatment of that idea.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).