PERETTI v. AUTHENTIC BRANDS GROUP LLC

Docket No. 21-2174-cv August Term, 2021.

33 F.4th 131 (2022)

Valentina M. PERETTI ACUTI, Paul J. Reitnauer, III, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AUTHENTIC BRANDS GROUP LLC, ABG EPE IP, LLC, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: May 4, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Clarida , Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Peter Anderson ( Adam I. Rich , Amanda Levine , on the brief), Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Livingston, Chief Judge, Lynch and Lohier, Circuit Judges.


This appeal concerns a dispute over the ownership of rights in the copyright of "Can't Help Falling In Love" (the "Composition"), a well-known ballad written by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George Weiss, and popularized by Elvis Presley, in 1961. Plaintiffs-Appellants Valentina M. Peretti Acuti and Paul J. Reitnauer...

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