SHADY RECORDS, INC. v. SOURCE ENTERPRISES, INC.

No. 03 Civ. 9944(GEL).

351 F.Supp.2d 74 (2004)

SHADY RECORDS, INC., Plaintiff, v. SOURCE ENTERPRISES, INC., David Mays, Raymond Scott p/k/a Ray Benzino, and Black Enterprise/Greenwich Street Corporate Growth Management LLC, Defendants. Source Enterprises, Inc., Counterclaimant, v. Shady Records, Inc. and Marshall Bruce Mathers III p/k/a Eminem, Counterclaim Defendants.

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

June 8, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Elkin, Thomas P. Lane, Hermann Ferre, Deborah L. Ander, Thelen, Reid & Priest, LLP, New York, NY; Londell McMillan, Frank C. Salzano, The McMillan Firm, New York, NY, for counterclaimants Source Enterprises, Mays, and Scott.

Donald N. David, Kenneth G. Schwarz, Bruce N. Lederman, Michael Korsinsky, Brian Bloom, Fischbein, Badillo, Wagner, Harding New York, NY, for counterclaim defendants Mathers and Shady Records.


OPINION AND ORDER

LYNCH, District Judge.

In this action for copyright infringement, Shady Records, Inc. ("Shady"), a music publisher, sues Source Enterprises, Inc. ("Source"), a magazine publisher, and related defendants, claiming that Source infringed its copyrights in two pieces of recorded music. Shady claims to hold copyrights in the songs as the assignee of Marshall Mathers (a prominent recording artist professionally known as Eminem) and a co-author...

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