WB MUSIC CORP. v. RTV COMMUNICATION GROUP

Docket No. 04-3890-CV(L), 04-3892-CV(CON), 04-3901-CV(CON).

445 F.3d 538 (2006)

WB MUSIC CORP., Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. doing business as Chappell & Co., Warner Bros., Inc., and Alice Coltrane doing business as Jowcol Music and Music Sales Corp., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. RTV COMMUNICATION GROUP, INC., RTV Service Corp., and Joe Miklas, Curator of the Estate of Robert W. Schachner, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 19, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey R. Ramos (Lesley Friedman Rosenthal and John H. Longwell, on the brief), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, N.Y. (John F. Delaney, Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Paul Goldstein, Stanford, CA, and Jacqueline C. Charlesworth, New York, NY, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Joe Miklas, Curator of the Estate of Robert W. Schachner, Tavernier, FL, Defendant-Appellee pro se.

Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, FEINBERG and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.


JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs-appellants in these consolidated cases appeal from final judgments of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (John F. Keenan, Judge) awarding them statutory damages for copyright infringement pursuant to 17 U.S.C. § 504(c). The district court computed statutory damages based on seven "compilations," in the form of compact discs prepared by the defendants, that infringed the...

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