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RANGE ROAD MUSIC, INC. v. EAST COAST FOODS, INC.

Nos. 10-55691, 10-55800.

668 F.3d 1148 (2012)

RANGE ROAD MUSIC, INC.; Sony/ATV Harmony; Williamson Music Company; Daniel Kuramoto, dba Little Tiger Music; Kimo Cornwell, dba Omik Music; Teri Koide, dba Skhamalee Music; Universal Music Corporation, Plaintiffs-counter-defendants-Appellees, v. EAST COAST FOODS, INC.; Herbert Hudson, Defendants-counter-claimants-Appellants. Range Road Music, Inc.; Sony/ATV Harmony; Williamson Music Company; Daniel Kuramoto, dba Little Tiger Music; Kimo Cornwell, dba Omik Music; Teri Koide, dba Skhamalee Music; Universal Music Corporation, Plaintiffs-counter-defendants-Appellees, v. East Coast Foods, Inc.; Herbert Hudson, Defendants-counter-claimants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed February 16, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharon Douglass Mayo , Arnold & Porter LLP, San Francisco, CA; Emilia P. Petersen and Danika B. Vittitoe , Arnold & Porter LLP, Vikram Sohal , Miller LLP, Los Angeles, CA; and Richard H. Reimer , American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, New York, NY, for the plaintiffs-counter-defendants-appellees.

Aaron T. Borrowman , Michael Anthony DiNardo , and John E. Kelly , Kelly, Lowry & Kelley, LLP, Woodland Hills, CA, for the defendants-counter-claimants-appellants.

Before: HARRY PREGERSON and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and JAMES P. JONES, District Judge.

OPINION

PAEZ, Circuit Judge:

East Coast Foods, Inc. (East Coast) and Herbert Hudson appeal the district court's grant of summary judgment to Plaintiffs-Appellees (collectively, the "Music Companies") for eight counts of copyright infringement, as well as the district court's award of attorney's fees and costs to the Music Companies. We affirm.

I. Background

The Music Companies own the copyrights to the eight songs at issue in this appeal...

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