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BRIDGEPORT MUSIC, INC. v. JUSTIN COMBS PUB.

No. 06-6294.

507 F.3d 470 (2007)

BRIDGEPORT MUSIC, INC.; Westbound Records, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. JUSTIN COMBS PUBLISHING and Bad Boy Entertainment, individually and doing business as Bad Boy Records; Universal Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.; UMG Recordings, Inc.; Bad Boy LLC, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: October 17, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jay S. Bowen, Bowen Riley Warnock & Jacobson, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants. Richard S. Busch, King & Ballow, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Jay S. Bowen, Amy Jo Everhart, Timothy L. Warnock, Bowen Riley Warnock & Jacobson, Nashville, Tennessee, Jonathan D. Davis, Jonathan D. Davis, P.C., New York, New York, for Appellants. Richard S. Busch, King & Ballow, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before: MARTIN and ROGERS, Circuit Judges; HOOD, District Judge.

OPINION

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, Bridgeport Music, Inc., and Westbound Records, Inc., owned the copyright to the Ohio Players' song, "Singing in the Morning." Defendant music publishers1 released the Notorious B.I.G. album Ready to Die, the title song of which contained an unlicensed sample of "Singing in the Morning." After plaintiffs brought suit against defendants for copyright infringement, a jury found in...

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