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ABKCO MUSIC, INC. v. SAGAN

15 Civ. 4025 (ER) (SLC).

500 F.Supp.3d 199 (2020)

ABKCO MUSIC, INC., Colgems-EMI Music, Inc., EMI Algee Music Corp., EMI April Music Inc., EMI Blackwood Music, Inc., EMI Consortium Music Publishing, Inc. d/b/a EMI Full Keel Music, EMI Consortium Songs, Inc. d/b/a EMI Longitude Music, EMI Feist Catalog Inc., EMI Robbins Catalog Inc., EMI Unart Catalog, Inc., Jobete Music Co., Inc., Screen-Gems-EMI Music Inc., Stone Agate Music, Stone Diamond Music Corp., Rodgers & Hammerstein Holdings LLC, Peer International Corporation, PSO Limited, Peermusic Ltd., Peermusic III, Ltd., Songs of Peer, Ltd., Spirit Catalog Holdings S.A.R.L., Towser Tunes, Inc., Towser Newco Ltd., Spirit Two Music, Inc., Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp., and WB Music Corp., Plaintiffs/Counterclaim-Defendants, v. William SAGAN, Norton LLC, Bill Graham Archives, LLC d/b/a Wolfgang's Vault, Bill Graham Archives, LLC d/b/a Concert Vault, Bill Graham Archives, LLC d/b/a Music Vault, and Bill Graham Archives, LLC d/b/a Daytrotter, Defendants/Counterclaim-Plaintiffs.

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

Filed November 13, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Isaac Slotnick , Christian D. Carbone , Tal Efriam Dickstein , Priyamvada Sinha , Sarah Schacter , Loeb & Loeb LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs/Counterclaim-Defendants.

Emily Catherine Ellis , Jeffrey J. Amato , Michael S. Elkin , Seth Eliot Spitzer , Thomas Patrick Lane , Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, NY, Erin R. Ranahan , Winston & Strawn LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Scott Richard Samay , Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP, Cranford, NJ, for Defendants/Counterclaim-Plaintiffs.

OPINION AND ORDER

On March 12, 2020, after a nine-day trial, a jury awarded Plaintiffs a total of $189,500 in statutory damages for infringing Plaintiffs' copyrights for 197 musical works. Doc. 373 at 1. The jury also found that Defendants' behavior constituted regular copyright infringement for the...

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