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“ [T]he Court painstakingly and repeatedly listened to the audio recordings of the allegedly infringed and infringing songs submitted by the plaintiff. *** Once again… the Court must point out that titles and common phrases such as “get it poppin’” are not protectible by copyright, and neither is the idea of “girls getting promiscuous after hours” in a club. [The court’s analysis of eight additional songs is omitted for reasons of both space limitation and good taste, but is largely parallel to the discussion above.]
Judge Friedman, Prunte v. Universal Music Group, Inc., 699 F. Supp.2d 15 (D.C. 2010).
