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ABILENE MUSIC, INC. v. SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

No. 02 Civ. 2462(GEL).

320 F.Supp.2d 84 (2003)

ABILENE MUSIC, INC.; Range Road Music, Inc.; and Quartet Music, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, INC.; Dennis Coles, p/k/a "Ghostface Killah"; Corey Woods, p/k/a "Raekwon"; and Alan Maman, p/k/a "the Alchemist," Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

June 18, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan J. Ross, Silverman Shulman & Baker, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs Abilene Music, Inc., Range Road Music, Inc. and Quartet Music, Inc.

Bruce Ewing, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, (Marc S. Reiner, on the brief) New York, NY, for Defendant Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.

OPINION AND ORDER

LYNCH, District Judge.

In this action for copyright infringement, plaintiffs allege that defendants infringed their copyright in the famous song What a Wonderful World ("Wonderful World") by issuing an album containing The Forest, a rap song that uses the first three lines of Wonderful World as its introduction. As defendant Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., ("Sony")1 has conceded that...

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