ESTATE OF SMITH v. GRAHAM

No. 19-28.

ESTATE OF JAMES OSCAR SMITH, Plaintiff-Appellant, HEBREW HUSTLE, INC., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. AUBREY DRAKE GRAHAM, personally known as DRAKE, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellee, CASH MONEY RECORDS, INC., UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC RECORDS, an unincorporated division of UMG RECORDINGS, INC., UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION, CORP., EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING MANAGEMENT, LLC, UNIVERSAL MUSIC-MGB NA, LLC, WARNER/CHAPPELL MUSIC, INC., SONY/ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING, LLC, APPLE, INC., AMAZON DIGITAL SERVICES, INC., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

February 3, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Clarida , Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLC, New York, N.Y, Anthony Robert Motta , New York, N.Y. (on the brief). Appearing for Appellant.

Christine Lepera , Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, ( Jeffrey M. Movit , on the brief), New York, N.Y, Appearing for Appellant.

Cynthia S. Arato , Shapiro Arato Bach, LLP, New York, N.Y. (on the brief).

Gabrielle Levin , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, N.Y. (on the brief). Appearing for Appellees.

Andrew Grimm , & Gregory William Keenan , Digital Justice Foundation, Omaha, N.E., amici curiae in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants Estate of Smith, et al.,

Jonathan Band , for Public Knowledge, Organization for Transformative Works, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Washington, D.C., amici curiae in support of Defendants-Appellees Graham, et al.,

Rebecca Tushnet , Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., and Jack I. Lerner , UCI Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic, Irvine, C.A., for Annemarie Bridy , Megan Carpenter , Peter Jaszi , Edward Lee , Jack I. Lerner , Yvette Joy Liebesman , Michael J. Madison , Mark P. McKenna , Betsy Rosenblatt , Zahr Said , Pamela Samuelson , David Shipley , Jessica Silbey , Rebecca Tushnet , amici curiae in support of Defendants-Appellees Graham, et al., Appearing for Appellant.

Present: GUIDO CALABRESI, ROSEMARY S. POOLER, SUSAN L. CARNEY,


SUMMARY ORDER

RULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT. CITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2007, IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY FEDERAL RULE OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE 32.1 AND THIS COURT'S LOCAL RULE 32.1.1. WHEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT, A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE FEDERAL APPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE (WITH THE NOTATION "SUMMARY ORDER"). A PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE...

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