CASES

News stories about claims of music copyright infringement appear regularly in legal and mainstream news outlets. Relatively few of these disputes go to trial, and fewer still generate published judicial opinions. This resource provides primary documentation, and commentary, on virtually all music infringement cases that have been litigated in the U.S., and for which a judicial opinion was issued, since the middle of the 19th Century. The InPlay segment (tab in menu bar) offers documentation relating to currently active disputes. As these disputes are settled, or reach a final disposition through litigation, information about them will be removed from the InPlay segment but will remain available within the main Cases segment of the site. All cases in the site’s expanding foreign cases collection are similarly listed here on the main Cases segment, and are identified, and searchable, by the applicable 2 or 3-letter country code.