A Manhattan federal judge had harsh words for plaintiffs in a minor copyright case that had proceeded all the way to trial but was dismissed after only a few hours.

Judge Sullivan

Southern District Judge Richard Sullivan found the plaintiffs’ only trial witness—the principal of two companies that claimed Spanish Broadcasting System Inc. had willfully infringed copyrights by playing six songs on the radio— contradicted years of amended complaints by saying his companies didn’t hold the copyrights.

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