Michael Skidmore, as Trustee for the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust v. Led Zeppelin, et al.
Whether or not the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc correctly held that musical copyright protection under the Copyright Act of 1909 is limited to sheet music deposits—and only sheet music deposits—or whether songs under the 1909 Act are protected as created and fixed in a tangible medium?
Whether Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was permitted to fundamentally alter wide swaths copyright precedent regarding the extrinsic test—namely originality, and selection and arrangement—in a way that directly challenges binding Supreme Court precedent to the contrary?
Whether musical works under the Copyright Act of 1909 are protected as created and fixed in a tangible medium, or limited to sheet music deposits