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BATISTE v. LEWIS

No. 19-30400 consolidated with No. 19-30889.

976 F.3d 493 (2020)

Paul BATISTE, doing business as Artang Publishing, L.L.C., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ryan LEWIS, also known as Macklemore Lewis; Ben Haggerty, also known as Macklemore, also known as Macklemore and Ryan Lewis; Macklemore Publishing; Ryan Lewis Publishing; Macklemore, L.L.C., doing business as Macklemore Publishing; Andrew Joslyn; Allen Stone; Andrew Joslyn Music, L.L.C., doing business as DB Joslyn Music; Stickystones Publishing, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED September 22, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DaShawn Paul Hayes, Esq. , New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Barry I. Slotnick , Christian D. Carbone , Loeb & Loeb, New York, NY, Mary Ellen Roy , Dan Brian Zimmerman , Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Clement, Southwick, and Higginson, Circuit Judges.

A local jazz musician, Paul Batiste, sued an internationally famous hip-hop duo for copyright infringement. He says the group digitally sampled his songs. Finding no evidence of copying, the district court granted summary judgment for the defendants and then ordered both Batiste and his attorney to pay the defendants...

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