Tisi v. Patrick

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “the key of A major” is a “non-protectible musical element] |” that is “not copyrightable as a matter of law”
• concluding that “the key of A major” is a “non-protectible musical element] |” that is “not copyrightable as a matter of law”
• structural similarities between parties’ musical compositions “are not significant because they are uniformly shared with most modern popular rock music”
• guitar rhythm and “basic percussion rhythm” found to be “extremely common in the pop rock genre”
• rejection of \bare corporate receipt\ as proof of access under similar facts
• rejection of \bare corporate receipt\ as proof of access under similar facts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).