‘Big Litigants Don’t Cry’: Ninth Circuit Finds That Musical About Four Seasons Used Only Unprotected Facts
MSK Client Alert
October 15, 2020
On September 8, 2020 in Corbello v. Valli, the Ninth Circuit reaffirmed the principle that copyright law does not protect facts and that authors who characterize their statements as fact are estopped from claiming that the statements were actually fiction. 974 F.3d 965 (9th Cir. 2020). The Court’s opinion reaffirms basic principles that have not recently come up in Ninth Circuit cases...