Trisha Xiang
Business Law
Professor Brandt
December 5, 2016
Winstead v. Jackson
Facts:
(1) The reasons for the lawsuit
As per Winstead, the content used by Jackson in his album/CD and film are from
Winstead’s book. So, as per Winstead’s view, it is a clear act of infringement of
copyrighted material of Winsted’s book.
(2) the identity and arguments of the parties
As per Jackson, the album is comprised of 16 individual songs which explores drug-
dealing, guns and money, vengeance and some clichés of hip–hop gangsters, and his
fiction film on gangster. In both the stories, the protagonists lose his parents due to some
