William L. Dawson v. Hinshaw Music Inc. Gilbert M. Martin

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that in Amstein “[t]he lay listener’s reaction is relevant because it gauges the effect of the defendant’s work on the plaintiffs market.”
• remanding to the district court to determine if the audience for a spiritual composition was sufficiently specialized--and the lay audience therefore sufficiently unfamiliar with such works--to warrant expert evidence on the substantial similarity question
• musical composition that allegedly infringed a copyrighted arrangement of spiritual music

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).