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Elvis D. Gonzalez recently obtained summary judgment on behalf of his client in a high-profile music copyright suit.
The case began when a Chicago-area musician claimed that a major recording artist used her music in a successful pop song. Because Mr. Gonzalez's client had collaborated extensively on the album and employed a sound engineer with connections to the plaintiff, it was named as a defendant.
After extended litigation, including testimony by renowned musicological experts that the two songs shared no similarities, Judge Aspen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted summary judgment. Completely vindicating Mr. Gonzalez's client and the other defendants, the judge wrote, "we find the similarity of expression to be, quite frankly, totally lacking," and that the two songs "are so utterly dissimilar that reasonable minds could not differ as to a lack of substantial similarity between them."
About Elvis Gonzalez, Ltd.
Elvis Gonzalez, Ltd. is based in Chicago, Illinois, and provides quality litigation and general business counseling services to clients in a highly personalized, cost-effective manner. Its principal, Elvis D. Gonzalez, works with businesses and organizations of all types to solve the legal challenges they face, and more importantly, to avoid them in the first instance. For more information, please visit www.elvisgonzalezltd.com.
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