Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property,
Entertainment & Sports,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Feb. 14, 2019
9th Circuit quietly buries music law’s inverse ratio rule
A late-breaking amendment to the court’s ruling in the Blurred Lines case may give creatives a bit of comfort, as the court quietly edited the “inverse ratio rule” out of existence.
Brandon T. Milostan
Associate
Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP
Email: milostan2017@lawnet.ucla.edu
Brandon practices in the firm's Entertainment Practice Group.
As another Grammys night passes into the mist of pop music history, recording artists, music executives and intellectual property attorneys may wonder whether another banner year of copyright infringement suits will rattle and rankle the industry of rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music. No less than four of the eight songs nominated for Song of the Year featured artists and songwriters sued for copyright infringement and two of the remaining four songs drew ...
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