Songwriter Appeals Sony’s Attorney Fees Award In Copyright Suit To 1st Circuit

Mealey's (April 27, 2017, 1:50 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — Despite rulings against him by a trial court and an appeals panel, a musician argues in an April 13 brief to the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that Sony Corporation of America was improperly awarded attorney fees because it did not prevail on the underlying copyright infringement claims since the prior rulings deferred adjudication on the merits to an arbitrator (Luis Adrian Cortes-Ramos v. Sony Corporation of America, et al., No. 16-2441, 1st Cir.)....