However the Court ruled alternately that, based on discovery in the case, summary judgment was still warranted because "he record reveals a lack of sufficiently probative evidence to determine that Acidjazzed Evening is a foreign work" because there was no evidence that the Australian "disk magazine" site was ever made "publicly accessible." The Court concluded that there was only "simple speculation that Acidjazzed Evening "was published on the Internet in August 2002. Central to the determination of publication is the method, extent, and purpose of distribution" and in the context of whether a work was first published abroad, also relevant is the "timing and geographic extent of the first publication." The Court noted that "proof of distribution or an offer to distribute, alone, is insufficient to prove publication.
proper separation of the terms yields a very different analysis." The Court ultimately held that Mosley failed to meet his factual burden in establishing the exact nature of the online posting of the song and its intended scope of distribution to support summary judgment in defendants' favor. By confounding 'Internet' with 'website,' the district court erroneously assumed that all 'Internet publication' must occur on the 'World Wide Web' or a 'website.' The district court then erroneously assumed all 'Internet publication' results in simultaneous, worldwide distribution. The 11th Circuit affirmed on alternative grounds under Section 411 of the Act but rejected the District Court's analysis and basis for the summary judgment grant, stating: "The district nfounded 'the Internet' and 'online' with 'World Wide Web' and 'website.' Because of the strict temporal and geographic requirements contained in the statutory definition of 'United States work,' conflating these terms had a profound impact on the district court's evidentiary analysis.
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The Florida District Court agreed and dismissed the case on a summary judgment motion based on its view that the Copyright Act dictates that a work simultaneously published in every country of the world should be treated as a "United States work" under Section 411 of the Act, and therefore is subject to the Copyright Act's registration requirement.
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Mosley argued, however, that by making Acidjazzed Evening available for download from an "Internet site," the work was simultaneously "published" in every country of the world having Internet service and, thus, the work was subject to the U.S. registration was required as a prerequisite to sue. copyright registration, but alleged that because the work was first published outside the U.S., no U.S. The defendants (including UMG, EMI and other music publishers) created, distributed and marketed an allegedly infringing (sampled) song called Do It.
The plaintiff, a Finnish record company, had purchased rights to a musical computer arrangement called Acidjazzed Evening, which was first published by the original author allegedly in Australia in August 2002 as a "disk magazine" called Vandalism News, and later by a Swedish website, which had uploaded it. Hecker, EASL Blog Coordinator on Ap9:15 AMĪ very interesting and detailed case addressing what constitutes a published "US work" in the context of global online publishing and distribution, is Kernel Records Oy v. Now, in Poindexter, a case that primarily addresses lack of standing and scope of work for hire/assignment agreements, Judge Swain also held that the subject sample consisting of a single "F-sharp" note played on a piano for less than two seconds was de minimus and not subject to copyright protection because a single note is not copyrightable, citing Swirsky v.
2005)), where that Circuit, in a case of first impression, held there was no "de minimus" copying defense as a matter of law in music sampling infringement cases ( Bridgeport addressed a two-second sample of a rap song used in a film). This quietly noteworthy music copyright infringement decision was issued March 27th by Judge Swain (SDNY), and reminded me of the 6th Circuit's 2005 decision in Bridgeport Music Inc.
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