Seventh Circuit Limits Inverse-Ratio Rule in Copyright Infringement Cases | Practical Law
In Peters v. West, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a district court decision that the hip-hop artist Kanye West did not infringe the plaintiff's copyrighted work. Notably, the court rejected the use of the inverse-ratio rule for copyright infringement to allow weaker proof for similarity between the allegedly infringing work and the original based on the accused infringer's strong proof of access to the original.