Re: riff stealing in music industry

From: Dorean M. Koenig - Thomas Cooley Law School <koenigd[_at_]mlc.lib.mi.us>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 10:12:46 -0500 (EST)

In Campbell v Acuff-Rose, the Supreme Court case involving 2 Live Crew's parody of "Oh, Pretty Woman", the court sent the case back to the lower court to determine whether repeating the base riff was copyright infringement or whether it was non-infringing parody.

Dorean Marguerite Koenig
Professor, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
koenigd[_at_]mlc.lib.mi.us
(517) 371-5140 Received on Wed Feb 08 1995 - 15:13:58 GMT

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