[1] Murray Stassen, Latin Music generated over $1 billion in US wholesale recorded music revenues in 2025, up 4.2% YoY, Music Business Worldwide (Apr. 13, 2026), https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/latin-music-generated-over-1-billion-in-us-wholesale-recorded-music-revenues-in-2025-up-4-2-yoy/ [https://perma.cc/EG62-92VK] (“Latin music generated over $1 billion in wholesale recorded revenues in the United States in 2025.”); Browne v. Donalds, No. 2:21-cv-02840-AB-AJR, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106614, at *19 (C.D. Cal. May 28, 2024).
[2] Browne, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106614, at *69.
[3] Ivan Moreno, In Reggaeton Case, Judge Asks If Beats Are Commonplace, Law360 (Dec. 19, 2025), https://www.law360.com/articles/2424172/in-reggaeton-case-judge-asks-if-beats-are-commonplace [https://perma.cc/W723-QJRH].
[4] Listeners Worldwide Crown Bad Bunny Global Top Artist for the Fourth Time and His Latest Release Takes Global Top Album, Spotify Newsroom (Dec. 3, 2025),
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-12-03/wrapped-bad-bunny-top-artist-album/ [https://perma.cc/CTS2-U53C]; see Moreno, supra note 3.
[5] Browne, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106614, at *13-14.
[6] Id. at *15.
[7] Id. at *66.
[8] Isabelia Herrera, Can You Copyright a Rhythm?, Pitchfork (Sept. 25, 2024),
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/can-you-copyright-a-rhythm/ [https://perma.cc/Q3BA-ULMS].
[9] Amended Complaint & Demand for Jury Trial, Browne v. Donalds., No. 2:21-cv-02840-AB-AFM at *34 (C.D. Cal. May 28, 2024), Dkt. No. 305.
[10] Id. at *229.
[11] Browne, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106614, at *16.
[12] Herrera, supra note 8.
[13] Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340, 361 (1991).
[14] Herrera, supra note 8.
[15] Id.
[16] Id.
[17] Browne v. Donalds, No. 2:21-cv-02840-AB-AJR, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 106614, at *69 (C.D. Cal. May 28, 2024).
[18] Moreno, supra note 3.
[19] Id.
[20] Mandy Dalugdug, Only a jury can decide reggaeton ‘dembow’ copyright case targeting Bad Bunny, Karol G and 150+ artists, judge rules, Music Business Worldwide (July 7, 2025),
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/only-a-jury-can-decide-reggaeton-dembow-copyright-case-targeting-bad-bunny-karol-g-and-150-artists-judge-rules/ [https://perma.cc/ZFN6-KX6G].
[21] Id.
[22] 17 U.S.C. § 507(b).
[23] Olson v. Law Offs. of Kira Anne West, No. 25-3840 (BAH), 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 114720, at *15-18 (D.C. Cir. May 25, 2026) (“Every circuit except the D.C. Circuit, however, has considered the issue of claim accrual in the context of copyright infringement claims, and every circuit has landed on the discovery rule… Defendants provide no good reason to depart from the unanimous and overwhelming weight of persuasive authority on this issue.”).
[24] Michael Grecco Prods., Inc. v. RADesign, Inc., 112 F.4th 144, 150 (2d Cir. 2024), (cert. denied, No. 24-768, 2025 U.S. LEXIS 2369* (June 16, 2025)).
[25] Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy, 601 U.S. 366, 371 (2024) (“We have never decided whether [the discovery rule] assumption is valid—i.e., whether a copyright claim accrues when a plaintiff discovers or should have discovered an infringement, rather than when the infringement happened.”).
[26]Amended Complaint & Demand for Jury Trial, Browne v. Donalds., No. 2:21-cv-02840-AB-AFM at *229 (C.D. Cal. May 28, 2024), Dkt. No. 305.
[27] Hayden v. Koons, No. 25-498-cv, 2026 LX 319623, at *14 (2d Cir. July 21, 2026).
[28] Id. at *20 (“On the record before us, a reasonable factfinder could only conclude that, with due diligence, Hayden should have learned of the alleged infringement of his work in the almost thirty years from 1989 and 1990 (when Koons created and debuted the allegedly infringing works) until December 2018 (three years before suit was filed).”).
[29] Id. at *21.
[30] Id. at *5-12; Amended Complaint & Demand for Jury Trial, Browne v. Donalds., No. 2:21-cv-02840-AB-AFM at *229 (C.D. Cal. May 28, 2024), Dkt. No. 305.
[31] Listeners Worldwide Crown Bad Bunny Global Top Artist for the Fourth Time and His Latest Release Takes Global Top Album, supra note 4.
[32] Warner Chappell Music, Inc. v. Nealy, 601 U.S. 366, 368 (2024) (“And Nealy soon afterward went to prison for drug-related offenses. He served one prison term from 1989 to 2008, and another from 2012 to 2015.”).
[33] Herrera, supra note 8.
[34] Id.
[35] Cox Commc’ns, Inc. v. Sony Music Ent., 607 U.S. 583 (2026); Petition for Writ of Certiorari, BMG Rights Management (US) LLC. v. Cyril E. Vetter, 163 F.4th 951 (No. 25-1391).
