Venegas-Hernández v. Asociación De Compositores Y Editores De Música Latinoamericana

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• holding that an unauthorized licensor is not liable for copyright infringement absent evidence that the unauthorized licensees actually infringed the copyright
• holding that an unauthorized licensor is not liable for copyrigh t infringem ent absen t evid ence that the unau thorized licensees actually infringed the copyright
• “Fitting agency concepts like ‘retroactive authorization’ into copyright law provides plenty of room for debate; obviously a license in 1998 did not ‘cause’ a 1993 infringement.”
• “The Copyright Act does not draw into federal court all matters that pertain to copyright.”

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