SCOTUS Declines Review of Copyright Suit Over Josh Groban’s ‘You Raise Me Up’

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to resolve a circuit split on substantial similarity tests in copyright law, to the disappointment of the owner of “the best-selling song in Iceland ever.” Johannsongs-Publishing Ltd. sued songwriter Rolf Lovland and several record companies over the song “You Raise Me Up” written by Lovland in 2001 and popularized by Josh Groban in 2003. It argues that […]