LEVITIN v. SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

No. 14 Civ. 4461(PAC).

101 F.Supp.3d 376 (2015)

Lee Oskar LEVITIN /p/k/a Lee Oskar, as an individual and d/b/a Ikke-Bad Music; Greg Errico, as an individual and d/b/a Radio Active Material Publishing Company; and Keri Oskar, an individual, Plaintiffs, v. SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, a New York corporation; Mr. 305, INC., a Florida corporation; Polo Grounds Music, Inc., a New York corporation; Sony Music Entertainment Canada Inc., a Canadian corporation; Sony Music Entertainment UK, a British entity of unknown form; Sony Music Entertainment Germany Gmbh, a German limited liability company; Sony Music Entertainment Australia, Ltd., an Australian limited company; Sony Music Entertainment Italy, S.P.A., an Italian corporation; Sony Music Entertainment Mexico S.A. DE C.V., a Mexican corporation; Sony Music Entertainment España, S.L., a Spanish limited liability company; Sony Music Entertainment Korea Inc., a South Korean corporation; and Sony Music Entertainment France, a French: entity of unknown form, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

Filed April 22, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth David Freundlich , Freundlich Law, Encino, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Barry E. Mallen , William Brody , Loeb & Loeb LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Jonathan Neil Strauss , Loeb & Loeb LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants.


OPINION & ORDER

Plaintiffs Lee Oskar Levitin ("Levitin"), Greg Errico ("Errico"), and Keri Oskar ("Oskar") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), writers of the musical composition "San Francisco Bay," bring this action for (i) domestic copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 106; and (ii) foreign...

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