LEVY v. ZIMMERMAN

Index No. 650502/21. Appeal No. 15665. Case No. 2021-02843.

204 A.D.3d 409 (2022)

163 N.Y.S.3d 804

2022 NY Slip Op 02225

Claudia C. Levy et al., Appellants, v. Robert Zimmerman, Also Known as Bob Dylan, and Doing Business as Ram's Horn Music, et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided April 5, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aaron Richard Golub, P.C., New York ( Russell I. Zwerin , of counsel) for appellants.

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York ( Alexandra Perloff-Giles , of counsel) and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Washington, DC ( Thomas H. Dupree, Jr. , of the bar of the District of Columbia, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel) for respondents.

Concur—Webber, J.P., Singh, González, Kennedy, Higgitt, JJ.


Jacques Levy, the decedent of plaintiff-executrix Claudia C. Levy, collaborated with Dylan in the early 1970s to write ten songs, seven of which were included on an album that Dylan released in 1976. In December 2020, Universal purchased the Dylan defendants' entire catalog of approximately 600 songs, including the songs' complete copyrights, for more than $300 million. Plaintiffs commenced this action in January 2021, contending...

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