House of Bryant Publications, L.L.C. vs. A&E Television Networks

On December 11, 2004 an episode of "The City Confidential" aired, including a 12-second clip of the song "Rocky Top." The scene the song was included in was a football game at the University of Tennessee. The marching band was playing the song; however, you could only hear about twelve seconds of the song because of all of the noise taking place in the scene. The House of Bryant, the administrators for the song, sued A&E Television Network for copyright infringement because of the song. A&E Television Network was eventually found guilty of copyright infringement and they had to give up all of the money that they had made on that episode along with $150,000.

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